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: Emacs Windows barebin distribution Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:12:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqxizvg0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4F8ADAFC.9030308@gmail.com> <831unp0xzq.fsf@gnu.org> <837gpj0vyo.fsf@gnu.org> <551F5F9812F347C08746E86B58C59129@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353258824 29022 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2012 17:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, mathias.dahl@gmail.com To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 18:13:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8RN-0002Wq-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8RD-0003nT-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8R8-0003nB-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8R5-0005wE-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta8R4-0005vZ-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MDP00H000YRW500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:13:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MDP00HZW16071E0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:13:13 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154915 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:20:20 +0100 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Mathias Dahl , cschol2112@googlemail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Drew Adams wrote: > > > Emacs is for its users, not for its developers. > > On one hand, stopping releasing the barebin distribution does not > really harm (most?) users; there's still the full distribution. > > On the other hand, it's not like removing the barebin target is hard > to revert, should the user's outcry suggest that it was indeed a bad > decision. One important thing that the critics seem to forget, or don't know, is that the barebin distribution simply didn't work, for quite some time now. So if we were to revert that decision, we would have to find a way to make it work first.