From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:39:01 -0600 Message-ID: <4BAEA525.20709@gmail.com> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com> <4BAE9ED4.6070900@t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269736770 12500 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 00:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:39:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 01:39:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvgXC-0006QD-Iz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:39:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvgXC-00056b-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvgX5-00056M-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57182 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvgX2-00054b-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvgX0-0002CJ-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f198.google.com ([209.85.222.198]:49475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvgX0-0002CD-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so1029729pzk.24 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EvQqstarevo6YsgVCFCrkox+YAyhoVBHLmozV+c9yfI=; b=ItnnxIy1EcjhLZJ0rtFP4CAOrnbUbidCeuvZnI6l++Wmkk56gF9Uf68Jh9OHkZ25TV 1I2Q1O8MI2+UnKExzdy8kyutgSnl0DiMqNHmiW54UWxo7WiBNtTpvOtYONDTRvhc80gb 5S/GOVRJY5apgSTRBWuXnAFyRiMJQi3Km+QCo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lGImwZ4PWsGzILxy7nzlfJNfeFFt29yq4LGeuWRD5vd7UHEHth9wpRagMlndo/0Lkj RySjoInIGlekRkRF53dMkDuedhn6dqnNK+dcah6l/en5T/s6kfZTb1gdc84FYm8dihkA 17abd7cV6BTEa7bcQSErjE6Gamv8yoCv/Fdy0= Original-Received: by 10.141.5.13 with SMTP id h13mr1062483rvi.24.1269736749371; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (67-40-151-225.hlrn.qwest.net [67.40.151.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm2286526pzk.11.2010.03.27.17.39.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:39:08 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <4BAE9ED4.6070900@t-online.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122781 Archived-At: On 3/27/2010 6:12 PM, Florian Beck wrote: > Christoph wrote: >> On 3/27/2010 10:55 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting >>> Windows 9X, did we? >> Microsoft did. Why don't we? > > Hardware. Windows 9X is the main choice for old machines (like 64MB > ram). Don't take that away without need. Why would you need to run Emacs 24 on hardware that old? Wouldn't Emacs 21, 22.3 or 23.2 suffice for your use case or until you upgrade your hardware? The need is in my opinion a growing pain in the rear-end to support this backwards compatibility.