From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:31:22 +0800 Message-ID: <874o2jhg0l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310996212 8176 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 13:36:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 15:36:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio07-0000y2-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:36:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qio06-0006cI-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QinvF-0005UH-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QinvA-0006Z1-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:42674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qinv4-0006Oe-1w; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so2808180vws.0 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:31:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=O6xPiiuRfk+boLGSvwv948WMfEwxZ6djsWxd9wADWS0=; b=PXtPXIREB+tsyJZbF7Ge7KwijrW63UXem8WPdVTJSOr8N0si9ZE69vEGhODHxOtQVU iSC3nVEvC5QohYOSiYu7NoXZXPAhSiYNkc6q6ap2eoeXU3UdbtxJELKKT6d5Unm+r0CS qLaLe8pm7TZFA7F3VBq/zsNhn31tKpT4c2vZM= Original-Received: by 10.52.115.4 with SMTP id jk4mr3781338vdb.410.1310995892691; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.89.189]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t1sm1687105vdv.38.2011.07.18.06.31.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1AC9414F1; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:31:23 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:04:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 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:142101 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Two reasons: (1) we still support running Emacs on Windows 9X Emacs 25 is probably a good point to drop that though, as it is holding us back on going completely Unicode, and the number of users is already tiny with Emacs 23 (how long was it between the release of Emacs 23.1 and when we finally got a bug report that Emacs 23 did not work on WIndows 98?).