From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:46:09 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <7g62mz8zxa.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <874o2jhg0l.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310996787 12266 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 13:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:46:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 15:46:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio9N-0005G7-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio9M-0008JB-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio94-0008Ia-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio93-0000JW-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio92-0000JO-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio91-00052p-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:45:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:45:59 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:45:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pwC4fqAaTxNx0AN1OYZIhALM3v4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142102 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Two reasons: (1) we still support running Emacs on Windows 9X > > Emacs 25 is probably a good point to drop that though, as it is holding > us back on going completely Unicode, and the number of users is already > tiny with Emacs 23 (how long was it between the release of Emacs 23.1 > and when we finally got a bug report that Emacs 23 did not work on > WIndows 98?). Probably not popular but... be practical. Move on. They can continue to use older emacs so they are being denied nothing. The usage is *tiny*.