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: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83bpe4zy13.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com> <4BAE9ED4.6070900@t-online.de> <87tys12sdy.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y6h9rsuc.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 1270025333 23373 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2010 08:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 31 10:48:50 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 1NwtbV-0004yF-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwtbV-0003GC-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwtRD-0001qk-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51100 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwtRC-0001qR-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwtRB-0003lR-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwtRA-0003lJ-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0500J001625Z00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:07 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L0500IK41BIDM30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:07 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y6h9rsuc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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:122959 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:57:31 +0900 > Cc: =D3scar Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Richard Stallman writes: >=20 > > However, it is not a high priority for us, because supporting an= y > > version of Windows is not a high priority for us. We have no > > commitment to support Windows 9, or Windows 7, or any version of > > Windows. People work on this if they want to do it, and they ca= n > > choose which platforms to support. >=20 > The point is that some developers find the very need to make the > choice (eg, having to parse #ifdefs that refer to Windows-related > code) annoying I fail to see how these #ifdefs should be more annoying than similar ones for Posix systems. And the issue in this thread was not about dropping Windows support altogether, only about supporting older Windows systems, which contribute no #ifdefs whatsoever.