From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apologia for bzr Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:46:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8338l5xp7n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102183432.GB13506@thyrsus.com> <83sit6xgfg.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102205154.GA20429@thyrsus.com> <83lhyyxfj0.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3ehy0ab.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388749607 29353 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 11:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 12:46:53 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz3DI-000601-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz3DI-0004Qo-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz3D9-0004PF-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz3D2-0004jJ-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:46:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:52430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz3D2-0004j6-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 06:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYT00B00PY6VM00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:46:35 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYT00BHUQ1MS860@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:46:35 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:167151 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:11:36 +0100 > Cc: Eric Raymond , Karl Fogel , > Emacs developers > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Yes, but so what? there were no changes since that beta. > > And yet, there's been no one able or willing to just change the version string > to 2.6, build for Windows and upload the tarball to the > official site. For a couple years, at least (I'm talking about 2.6b2 > and 2.6 here). Which speaks volumes of the *commitment* to Windows... > or perhaps of the vitality of the Bazaar project as a whole. When no new versions of bzr come out, the fact that no one produces Windows installers is a moot point. Anyway, the commitment to Windows is of no interest to me; the fact that it works well there is.