From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development Speed Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:47:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83fsqkycn0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sfulx86y.fsf@telefonica.net> <87zgotos6d.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o858yle4.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37595"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 22 15:03:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1n02DE-0009aC-2I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:03:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40086 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n02DC-0005NO-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n01y5-0002fL-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=39452 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n01y4-0005ob-7A; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:47:44 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=NgZqGgBdoflkG2K9FJftxGhXD8uSyJz4ivu1v35oSLQ=; b=i60zzhFZ89eFpiMGmuRt fR5k3GAoscHHKh5NOgRS0sQuxxvHTlGkUWbvETRyN4wxAY7A8GnXumuA7/lcCgT4nmfy2OSJ3W//E Fj2yZQY+k3hTgV7hVFYL5EEx7X+0UzNk3V6YpNOaCW+tP547GT58iY3eTelJSIFaXN/e71MbvCW1y ODfRRlR/E6eKRct87kD64K40jlbs9+NC1BGLcA1MbkOCO7mg8F4IEjV17VXTkqMYuRxhXmpCECwqO d2fAK0AZGS7glWK/0g56lKWPOjVOH0xrNgVLJQBGzhc9FSfkER+l1xqBbjL2Qs07EHKNB3OMWgf44 xB2F188xAJR4tQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1212 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n01y3-0006ms-VG; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:47:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o858yle4.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:38:43 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282737 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:38:43 +0100 > > don't you think that keeping a separate branch for Windows-9X (or > any retro-computing platform, for that matter) would be more > adequate, instead of forcing everyone else to go over that code when > they read the sources? No, I don't. The Windows 9X support is confined to a small number of well-defined places. Maintaining a VCS branch is a much larger hurdle.