Re: Omitting Windows-specific parts from infrastructure changes

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 01/21/2015 09:39 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Wow, is this really a threat to block or revert changes to the Emacs
> mainline code, as leverage to force people to do unnecessary drudgework

Regardless of the outcome of this discussion, I hope everyone realizes 
that the presence and adequate functioning of Emacs ports to proprietary 
operating systems is beneficial to GNU/Linux users as well, since it 
increases the size of the ecosystem.

For instance, the maintainer of what currently seems to be the best hope 
for a Java editing environment (malabar-mode) uses Windows.

Yours truly has spent quite a bit of time on Windows as well. Had Emacs 
port not been available then, I'd probably have ended up not using it at 
all in the end.

> to help polish up the MS-Windows code?

It seems to me that the goal is to help keep it up-to-date.

(Sorry for butting in).