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: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:39:06 +0200 Message-ID: <86ej5mgf05.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87wsje37rg.fsf@saeurebad.de> <86mykaggmk.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4885EA77.5030208@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216737601 21482 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 14:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Johannes Weiner , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 16:40:49 2008 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 1KLJ29-0007Ss-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:40:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLJ1F-00087F-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLJ1C-000878-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLJ1A-00086r-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40766 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLJ1A-00086o-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:36869) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLJ19-0004nJ-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 2628 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2008 14:39:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Jul 2008 14:39:05 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A24038EEEF; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:39:06 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4885EA77.5030208@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.1.11; VDF: 7.0.5.151; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:101206 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling >> workarounds like that? And of course, this just works on one version of >> cmd.exe, and might break on another. > > Why don't you use perl for example instead? Chicken and egg. Installation scripts have to rely on what is there. -- David Kastrup