From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 08:00:35 +0100 Message-ID: <5822C993.7050403@gmx.at> References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> <05ba947a-970a-178c-8036-bcdf84485384@cs.ucla.edu> <87inrzz4y0.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fun2vxab.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478674924 20887 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2016 07:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 07:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 08:01:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c4MtM-00041B-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 08:01:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4MtP-0007NQ-Q0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4MtK-0007NK-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4MtJ-0002nK-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:54476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4MtD-0002kv-9T; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 02:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([212.95.7.87]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MgKoE-1cQs6C0Gfe-00Ng82; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 08:00:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87fun2vxab.fsf@russet.org.uk> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:qAC1i90Wg7K48GcCv8Zq7az9kTfNP7t50XOrPBS++eRfgLHh/B9 gS5sYFbGKnOEDht95slnkyR9v5paES0wLThy1tkXLadh86Su2PEGmVTQODcOz8nCNgdpM+I lnJyZTLLfZdmsuYppabmkEjf3jj08Mzu0mH+Ms94CV7zOyi7PYSq5ah27sectEAtuNTBEvN YRHPtzRRT5nCjiK8VVATg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:RF5OxR7s/QI=:J8YvwYwwPEkltEcSfd2Tar XR3Fu9R3M0fszy956gfuS/lzu+1s0keQQlwLSATuyAqa7JEpqFNUXPcZTqP3zMUvWFkb8C4zV uUoCeHYiM3zFA7q5NRKX5qsyHM43dPvMyyN3sZaDeWEO+sa/hzHgEZI9NnR2Pkvsh2IItdsJR hZ4JZa7oF8p7wM2uW8/RC5y0EtJG2LewxsCIE/QXkqNs2AMX5DctH8fXKYSbYL3bFLTe6HoIw 0tGsHz9eiVqnZ/3K3sbZIqB/cxrsNOZUKgaki0Lt9q7dfbsYtthuY+9B+jXqf2pFOZ+qQYR+P zTcqpt9EI8ZDa7k9rz68rzbyx9Wp+KSPbhg9AphjIY8OrbpRZTkbV5UvHJhfHJD+bpTGJe29l +3PJ4OOQpwzsmdNLFAj9ey7Fh4zzPIB0TKfzX/iqJWKC8TQdPMmPzsttwna4AY0whtjFdRMs1 3hALQEfEZl7FajU23QTIYfi2UqWTqvyXx+q4InJb02hrc4EsezBM9HINMjKWtYJKz/Dn/LI1U 9g8DEAKQA0dTMM/dQXBu5GhkgFWYFc2lBt8QDX6V2UnEejaqA+vmbOx3Z9yOJPOBPM5X5g40i z3RIfsQY2saZ9c6197giYL/nJSoiE0QMwNu/dH6BJCi71yeuhiOWw0UfL2TOwy1UccGRQrwlV TfHGf4+mipBNBA90alev6TGqPJuZTrVchVE4AHcUFj4WJH2piDDFksf0OeTUc7B4TE6PBCO6n bdOBhcLu/ayf8ENNjkwmIw/Q+y+VV84Z9Q26pIo9aVXtXChYQI4LOuXBKht3Kds7NEEgCYiA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209303 Archived-At: > This > would then provide us a generalized mechanism for deprecation of OS > support. The only difficulty I can see is finding a copy of Win 98 on > which to test this. > > Can I suggest we add 9x, and Windows XP into the list for Emacs-26? Why deprecate support for systems that is not broken? Shouldn't we rather concentrate our efforts on fixing support for systems like Cairo or Gnustep? Would continuing support for Windows 98 hinder us in any way doing that? martin