From: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:24:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E24B282.209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QivzP-0003VU-UK@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I don't recall that discussion. Can we reopen it? According to [1],
> Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%.
>
> That must be hundreds of thousands of people.
~300,000 if we assume 1 billion people worldwide. That's still
miniscule in proportion --- and of those 300,000, how many are savvy
enough to be Emacs users?
If there _are_ any remaining Windows 9X Emacs users, dropping 9X support
will be doing them a favor: using an OS that doesn't receive security
updates is terribly dangerous. Besides, they'll always have Emacs 24
and below.
> We should not be in a hurry to delete code that is already in Emacs
> and might be useful for someone.
The code will always be there in the version control history.
On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> What is meant by "going all Unicode"? That sounds like a drastic
> change.
Not really --- Each Windows API comes in two versions: an "ANSI" one
that accepts strings using legacy character encoding and a "Unicode" one
that accepts UTF-16LE strings. All we have to do is start calling the
latter functions instead of the former.
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 0:01 [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 0:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 6:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 10:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 16:04 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-18 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 13:55 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-18 16:13 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-18 17:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-18 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 7:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 9:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 10:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 11:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-18 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 16:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 22:08 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-18 22:24 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2011-07-18 22:45 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-18 22:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-19 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-21 1:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-18 22:08 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-18 13:31 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-18 13:46 ` Richard Riley
2011-07-18 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 10:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-18 17:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-18 15:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-18 17:37 ` Andreas Schwab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-18 17:33 grischka
2011-07-18 17:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 18:08 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 18:52 ` grischka
2011-07-18 19:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-18 21:01 ` grischka
2011-07-19 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-19 2:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-21 17:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-22 7:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-22 7:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-22 21:24 ` chad
2011-07-22 21:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-18 18:38 ` grischka
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