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: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:26:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83hbo0gb5j.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269762319 32169 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 07:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 09:45:15 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 1NvnBJ-0002lO-1d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvnBH-00064A-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvmsq-0002yB-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57416 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvmso-0002xW-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmsn-0007fB-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmsn-0007f6-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZZ00500B9ZXY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:25:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZZ006MEDZ7JI50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:25:56 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tys12sdy.fsf@telefonica.net> 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:122785 Archived-At: > From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:37:29 +0100 >=20 > Florian Beck writes: >=20 > >>> How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting > >>> Windows 9X, did we? > >>> =20 > >> Microsoft did. Why don't we?=20 > > > > Hardware. Windows 9X is the main choice for old machines (like 64= MB > > ram). Don't take that away without need. >=20 > If they run a 15 year old trashy OS, do they really demand the late= st > and greatest Emacs? (which is a very fat application for such machi= nes) We still support DOS, which is even trashier, remember? I really don't understand this urge to be unkind to users of lesser machines. If there was some effort required from the active developers, I could at least begin to understand. But there isn't any.