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: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:24:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83bpaeumdx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278858437 5336 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 14:27:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, miles@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 16:27:15 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 1OXxUw-0002Xh-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:27:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXxUv-0003cP-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39324 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXxUq-0003cA-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXxUo-0005On-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:42081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXxUo-0005Og-MW; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L5E00E00DCFSR00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:26:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.120.144]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L5E00DIHDGJG740@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:26:45 +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:127048 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200 > Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > > Lennart Borgman writes: > >>> But wxwidgets is ancient, clunky, and bloated, and not something Emacs > >>> should be depending on lightly. > >> > >> I will not pretend to know anything about it but the latest release is > >> from 2010-04-23. > > > > I don't mean it's not maintained. > > No I am getting curious. You obviously know more than me about this. > Why do you say wxWidget is ancient? (This is a little bit funny to use > the word "ancient" here when Emacs is so old ;-) > > I know people have had negative opinions about it here before. It > looked to me some of it was based on experience, but I am not sure. According to their docs, wxWidgets is for C++, not for C, so Emacs cannot use it.