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: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:17:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83630js6ea.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bpaeumdx.fsf@gnu.org> <20100711150142.GB3134@muc.de> <834og6uduu.fsf@gnu.org> <87ocecit9b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279038278 25408 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 16:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, spedrosa@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bernardobarros2@gmail.com, ams@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, miles@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 18:24:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYiHU-0005TM-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:24:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYiHN-0004Ht-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41766 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYiH7-0004Dd-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYiH0-0006fc-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:51425) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYiCo-0005oW-5t; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L5I00M007RXVH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:19:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.120.144]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L5I00FC080JV8L0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:19:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127194 Archived-At: > From: Deniz Dogan > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:52:08 +0200 > Cc: rms@gnu.org, fplemma@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,=20 > =09spedrosa@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bernardobarros2@gmail.c= om,=20 > =09joakim@verona.se, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, john@yates-she= ets.org,=20 > =09eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org >=20 > 2010/7/13 Alfred M. Szmidt : > > =A0 > =A0 =A0many people in the gnu world are using qt4. are ther= e reasons not to > > =A0 > =A0 =A0consider it? > > =A0 > > > =A0 > Two: > > =A0 > > > =A0 > * GNU policy is to use other GNU packages by preference, an= d QT isn't > > =A0 > =A0GNU. > > =A0 > > > =A0 > * GNU policy is to use C by preference to C++. > > > > =A0 Are these policies listed somewhere? > > > > They are listed in the GNU Maintainer Guidelines, the GNU mainfes= to, > > and our project web page. > > >=20 > Well, I don't find anything about C++ specifically in the maintaine= r > guidelines and the manifesto... Never mind, it's not important. Bad reference. See the "Source Language" node in the standards.info manual.