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: Windows 9X compatibility (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:17:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83k4swgbjy.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269760705 28962 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 07:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 09:18:21 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 1NvmlG-0001cD-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvmlF-0000Kb-9Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvmkx-0000H7-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51783 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvmkq-0000EV-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmkm-0006ga-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvmkm-0006g4-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZZ00700DAALV00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:17:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZZ007M8DKSKP10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:17:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com> 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:122783 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:28:13 -0600 > From: Christoph > > On 3/27/2010 10:55 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting > > Windows 9X, did we? > > > Microsoft did. Why don't we? Last time we checked, the majority of machines in the 3rd world used Windows 9X. The GNU Project doesn't want to be unfriendly to computer users in those countries. Maybe things have changed, but someone will need to show figures, and ask FSF to reconsider. > Are there plans on dropping support for these ancient OSs instead of > kludging backwards compatibility into the system? What ``kludging backwards compatibility''? All we do is load some libraries dynamically instead of linking against them statically. The rest of back-compatible code was written years ago and needs zero maintenance.