From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>,
bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New warnings on emacs-26 branch with gcc 8.2.0
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:33:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2778143.f1hlgcP5Av@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0771b7a4-cc93-e23e-0de5-0069ce67a270@cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Can this problem be addressed a bit better by using GetProcAddress only inside
> #ifndef HAVE_GETSYSTEMTIMEPRECISEASFILETIME code on builds for MS-Windows 7 and
> earlier, and directly using GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime on builds for
> MS-Windows 8 and later?
I don't think the idea of having different builds for different versions of
the same operating system is going to fly.
- The users can't manage it: Many users don't even know precisely what
version of operating system they are running.
- The developers don't want it: Why build and test 2 executables if they
can achieve the same goal with half of the build and test effort?
Also, Emacs builds have pretty strong backward compatibility requirements.
I recall that Emacs still supported Windows 2000, when many other packages
listed Windows XP as the minimum. As currently ca. 35% of the Windows users
still use Windows 7 [1], you can imagine how many years it will take until
Emacs binaries don't need to run on Windows 7 any more.
Bruno
[1] https://windowsreport.com/windows-10-windows-7-popularity/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-18 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-05 16:33 New warnings on emacs-26 branch with gcc 8.2.0 Andy Moreton
2018-08-05 16:41 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-05 19:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-05 22:23 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-05 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-06 8:30 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-06 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-06 15:26 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-06 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-06 18:37 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-06 21:36 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-06 21:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-11 15:06 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-11 19:38 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 20:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-06 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-06 3:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-11 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11 10:41 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11 15:02 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11 18:13 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11 18:36 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 19:04 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-11 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 12:59 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-14 21:20 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-14 22:32 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 16:09 ` Bruno Haible
2018-08-18 17:19 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-18 18:33 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2018-08-18 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 18:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-18 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 19:57 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-18 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18 19:07 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-18 21:25 ` Bruno Haible
2018-08-19 0:17 ` Bruno Haible
2018-08-19 2:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 7:08 ` Yuri Khan
2018-08-19 8:40 ` Bruno Haible
2018-08-20 3:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-20 8:20 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-21 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-21 3:43 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-22 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-17 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 15:21 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-17 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17 21:33 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-18 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-11 19:18 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 15:53 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-16 21:05 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-17 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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