From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MSDOS support Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:51 -0400 Message-ID: <878wvi1740.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217513194 23311 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 14:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 31 16:07:23 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 1KOYnu-0001rU-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:06:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOYn0-0004WI-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOYmv-0004Uo-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOYmu-0004Ts-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50659 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOYmu-0004Tk-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-63-201-57.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.63.201.57]:11263 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOYmt-0004F4-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 440DBC058; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200807310717.m6V7HvQk016586@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:17:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:101792 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > Emacs running on MSDOS was probably a technical wonder (Eli and all > other people that made it possible deserve kudos for this excellent > work), and probably it was very important at the time. But at this time > supporting this platform does not seem useful anymore. > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the MSDOS support? We've already decided to honor Eli's request to keep it. Also, the time has passed for making such changes. Thanks for doing the cleanup that you've done so far. The rest will have to wait for the next development cycle. Please concentrate on fixing bugs now.