From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:26:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tslvy19.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fun2vxab.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:52:44 +0000")
phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> We don't need "If you use..." -- Emacs should know OS it is using.
> I am happy to add this to Emacs-26 (perhaps as an addition to the splash
> screen). For "<some email address>" we could use a debbugs email. This
> would then provide us a generalized mechanism for deprecation of OS
> support. The only difficulty I can see is finding a copy of Win 98 on
> which to test this.
>
> Can I suggest we add 9x, and Windows XP into the list for Emacs-26?
>
>> > The only thing that I could think of further to get more information
>> > would be to check the download logs; does ftp.gnu.org store user agent
>> > strings or equivalent. This would at least give us some evidence about
>> > Windows 9x -- also Windows XP.
>>
>> That is a good idea.
>
> I will investigate and see if this data is available.
So, I managed to get info about one day -- there have been 32,000
accesses to ftp.gnu.org. None (for any project, let alone emacs) have
come with a Win 9x user agent.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-03 15:32 Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? David M. Miller
2016-11-03 15:39 ` tomas
2016-11-03 16:00 ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 16:26 ` John Mastro
2016-11-03 16:28 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:44 ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 22:21 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-04 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 10:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-05 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 8:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 7:00 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2016-11-07 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 3:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 4:13 ` Noam Postavsky
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