more obsoletion threats again??

more obsoletion threats again??

[Rugxulo]

"** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email
emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers.

...

*** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the
NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag)."


Um, against whom and why exactly is that being done? (I smell a rat.)
Yes, okay, so DOS and DJGPP don't exactly support shared libraries
(does DXE3 count? doubt it ...). Heck, even the third-party hack that
*does* fully support it isn't really maintained (GCC 4.0.1, 2.04 beta,
ELF-based), and it probably needs its own unexec written from scratch
in order to work.

In short, yes I still use DOS, please do not obsolete it. Why so much
effort to obsolete stuff? I mean, if GNU Emacs is useful and portable,
why break it on purpose?? Remember that FreeDOS + DJGPP are both "free
software".

Re: more obsoletion threats again??

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:27:34 -0500
> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
> 
> "** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
> If you are still using Emacs on one of these platforms, please email
> emacs-devel@gnu.org to inform the Emacs developers.
> 
> ...
> 
> *** Platforms not supporting shared libraries (i.e., requiring the
> NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag)."
> 
> 
> Um, against whom and why exactly is that being done? (I smell a rat.)
> Yes, okay, so DOS and DJGPP don't exactly support shared libraries

Relax, the DJGPP (a.k.a. DOS) build of Emacs does not require the
NO_SHARED_LIBS compilation flag (src/s/msdos.h does not define it).
So if someone wants to obsolete the DOS build, NO_SHARED_LIBS is not
the reason ;-)