Re: Emacs vista build failures

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > One way to look into this question is perhaps to ask people developing 
>  > software that runs on free systems where they have learned it and if it 
>  > has been any help to them that these tools also runs on non-free systems.
> 
> It's only worth asking these questions if a negative conclusion would mean that
> people are going to stop working on/distributing Emacs on non-free systems.
> Since they are probably not going to do that, it's probably best to just
> have tolerance for one another.

Don't you when you write this already assume that it is negative to work 
for free software development tools on Windows? Is not your conclusion 
already done then?

I would say that if these questions are asked one might come to the 
conclusion that better support on non-free systems may promote free systems.

I for one has found it quite irritating having to spend so much time 
trying to fix problems with Emacs on w32 instead of raising the level of 
Emacs in different areas.

But it is difficult, or rather impossible, to draw final conclusions. 
You have to take into account many things. What one can hope for is that 
looking into the questions gives input for strategies to use.