From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:16 +0100 Message-ID: <854pp7grnr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85wt23idxi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85649ni9h8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17892.41562.272591.53294@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85lkijgsp9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17892.45163.858842.328409@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172615456 20603 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2007 22:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 27 23:30:47 2007 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 4.50) id 1HMAqD-0006cC-CA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMAqD-0001Bl-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMAq2-0001BW-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMAq0-0001B8-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMApz-0001B5-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMApv-0000ym-R5; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550242D5A3E; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F4A2DAABC; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-055-100.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.55.100]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284282C8A71; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B3AF11D17415; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:30:16 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <17892.45163.858842.328409@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 11\:27\:55 +1300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:66967 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > > Why? If X11 is not available, we fall back to without-X. Would you > > claim that without-X is for that reason the best choice for the > > default? Because it builds on more platforms? > > That's an absurd analogy. Which is why I consider your original argument absurd. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum