From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36357: Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:25:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83a74dfrlo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <588be92b-a3d1-73f2-a49f-4e2fd6da1ed0@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="128520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 36357@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastian Urban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 18 19:26:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOM-000XKC-R5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:26:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57090 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOL-0007HV-T5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOE-0007HP-VQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOE-0001qm-1j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOD-0001q9-UM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdOD-0002wA-PX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:26:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36357 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36357-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36357.158455590811219 (code B ref 36357); Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36357) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Mar 2020 18:25:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41378 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdNM-0002ur-4r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53777) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdNJ-0002uI-RY for 36357@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdNE-0007Ev-MM; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3734 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jEdND-0000Xv-Hr; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:25:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <588be92b-a3d1-73f2-a49f-4e2fd6da1ed0@gmail.com> (message from Sebastian Urban on Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:26:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:177511 Archived-At: > Cc: 36357@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Sebastian Urban > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:26:31 +0100 > > > What "if" did you have in mind? Emacs cannot know which version of > > Ghostscript is installed, and there's no way I know of to code a > > reasonable condition for that. > > Whether the OS is 64bit or 32bit A 64-bit OS can perfectly well run 32-bit executables. > This doesn't solve the problem, but better defaults are better > defaults. I'm not convinced this is a better default. My 64-bit Windows system is full of 32-bit executables, both those that I compiled and those I did not. If your proposal is a better default, how come no one complained about this?