From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:22:36 +0900 Message-ID: <87liwn7n7n.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wrgcz9ks.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ei2h7xcp.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309159740 1204 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2011 07:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 09:28:55 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 1Qb6Fb-0005uL-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qb6FZ-0005g5-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qb69g-0004Rk-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qb69d-0000C6-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:53923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qb69d-0000B6-AR; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8003C3FA0713; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:22:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D7591A26BD; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:22:36 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" cd1f8c4e81cd XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 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:141052 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Emacs development does not commit to making its code work in XEmacs. > We cooperate in a lot of easy ways, because there is no reason to > refuse that. However, in large decisions, making our code run in > XEmacs is a non-goal. Plenty of XEmacs code uses interfaces that > don't exist in Emacs. In all decisions, large and small, it is an XEmacs goal to support interfaces that exist in Emacs. So I apologize for the delay in supporting dbus in XEmacs, but I agree with Richard: don't avoid interfaces just because they don't yet exist in XEmacs.