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: [PATCH 2/4] Refactor window-system configuration Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:54:51 +0200 Message-ID: <834nwiv3qc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4b98eec4a5f68bfcd9233d5e7444de05873225b4.1325166472.git.dancol@dancol.org> <4EFCE9C4.8050908@dancol.org> <4EFCEE59.7030605@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325235310 8895 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2011 08:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 09:55:06 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 1RgYF0-0007z1-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:55:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgYEz-000179-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgYEx-000161-9Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgYEv-0000nh-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgYEu-0000mu-AT; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LX000K00DOEPR00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:54:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LX000KWEE3DG9B0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:54:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:147033 Archived-At: > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:05:44 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > There's a lot more emacs contributors that are fluent in C than > contributors fluent with autoconf. Why not cater to the majority? I agree. Daniel, please keep in mind that at least Windows users normally know very little about autoconf, and will have difficulty finding their way around the configure script and its products, and understanding how and where the value of that constant is computed.