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: w32 does not have emacsclient/server Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:15:02 +0200 Message-ID: <85zmsorthl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <42D75F2C.3040303@student.lu.se> <85zmso79mt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42D7AA3E.7040508@student.lu.se> <42D7C92E.2020100@gnu.org> <42D7CDAA.4070400@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121441842 16418 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 15:37:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 15 17:37:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSEl-0007P6-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSGI-0000kv-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DtS0q-0007DS-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DtS0i-0007B3-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtS0h-00072W-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DtS2W-0007GE-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DtRqn-0000lC-7i; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 244CC1C40B64; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42D7CDAA.4070400@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:52:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:40932 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40932 Lennart Borgman writes: > Jason Rumney wrote: > >> >>> I have suggested that there might be too few developers on the w32 >>> side. In that sense it may actually be part of a strategy. >> >> >> >> There is no conspiracy here. The number of developers reflects the >> number of volunteers. > > I am not at all talking about conspiracy. I am trying to tell what I > suspect the current strategy leads to. (I e too few volunteers.) If we have an abundance of volunteers that refuse to improve Emacs except on proprietary platforms, we are worse off than we are now. > However that was not the main purpose of my message. Please write > about the problem I took up (no emacsclient/server on w32) and > possible solutions. The solution is that somebody write a working emacsclient/server. Obviously, this someone is to be looked for among people actually using Windows. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum