From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Windows barebin distribution
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:02:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw466y11.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SSJHvLbSNXmtDZObrJqQ+N4=u7+KeqRmA80iuy+kQLv6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > And in this case a very good measure was proposed. And,
> > unbelievably, it was summarily dismissed/countered in favor of
> > reliance on the much poorer measure of emacs-devel activity.
> > That is the argument and the attitude I spoke out against.
>
> Polling users doesn't happen on its own. Someone has to spend the time
> to do it. Removing something deemed unnecessary and waiting for anyone
> to complain is less work.
+1 Exactly what I would have said first.
I would have added that it's also far more accurate than polling,
though it (might) involve more pain for the users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-15 14:28 Emacs Windows barebin distribution Christoph Scholtes
2012-04-15 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-16 22:48 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-16 22:54 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-17 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-17 8:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-17 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 12:52 ` Mathias Dahl
2012-11-18 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 16:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-18 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 17:37 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 17:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 17:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-18 17:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-18 17:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-18 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-19 4:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-11-18 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 13:58 ` Jason Rumney
2012-11-21 4:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-11-18 19:56 ` Mathias Dahl
2012-11-18 20:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-18 20:45 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-18 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-15 16:43 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-16 0:02 ` Drew Adams
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