From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 085c7f6 2/2: Test format-time-string with zone arg Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 18:49:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvaugctn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170427222412.28742.14016@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <80850259-8972-19b3-6435-2b8b9cc2319b@cs.ucla.edu> <83bmrbi3so.fsf@gnu.org> <3590215.6Xrt2mkima@omega> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493826619 3278 195.159.176.226 (3 May 2017 15:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 15:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, bruno@clisp.org, kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 17:50:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXf-0000jZ-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 17:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXk-0004HZ-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 11:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXa-0004Ek-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 11:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXa-00045c-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 11:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXT-00041N-24; Wed, 03 May 2017 11:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4263 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d5wXS-0003Ti-3q; Wed, 03 May 2017 11:50:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 2 May 2017 15:35:03 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214544 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:37226 Archived-At: > Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:35:03 -0700 > > > 1) The Emacs w32.c ports to Windows98 as well, whereas Gnulib currently assumes > > Windows XP at least (and will soon move to Windows 7, I guess - namely when > > no one has a test machine with Windows XP any more). Merit or demerit? Opinion? > > In the past Eli has argued for supporting ancient MS-Windows and MS-DOS > versions. I don't know whether he still cares. (By "ancient" I mean that > Microsoft itself no longer supports them.) We still try to support Windows 9X, but MS-DOS is not relevant to this discussion, as it does use the Gnulib implementation of fdutimens.