From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: vms for emacs [was: MacOS port functional too] Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87y7jiogw2.fsf_-_@ambire.localdomain> References: <464CC097.10700@gnu.org> <200705192325.l4JNP7lT027096@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85zm3zongg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4650B1A9.2030509@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179727236 17325 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 06:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 08:00:33 2007 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 1Hq0wZ-0002lp-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0wY-0005pS-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0wV-0005pK-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0wT-0005or-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0wT-0005ok-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.libero.it ([212.52.84.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq0wN-0006Hv-EX; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (172.31.0.54) by smtp-out1.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FD1802E21C43; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:15 +0200 X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it Original-Received: from smtp-out2.libero.it ([172.31.0.38]) by localhost (asav-out12.libero.it [192.168.32.40]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RS3R9DGnwBUL; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (151.21.38.222) by smtp-out2.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FD380417C308; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:15 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq0wX-0000y9-Ib; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:00:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4650B1A9.2030509@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sun\, 20 May 2007 21\:38\:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:71467 Archived-At: () Jason Rumney () Sun, 20 May 2007 21:38:01 +0100 Did we drop vms support for Emacs 22, or did someone come forward to support it? there was no official support for Emacs 21, and that situation has not changed since then. thus "drop" is not entirely correct although the result is the same from user point of view. personally, i'm currently talking w/ someone to set up a remote account where i can do some work on vms support. things move slowly, though. ideally, i could install changes directly into cvs (on a branch), but iirc from discussion w/ rms and the FSF copyright clerk, Richard Levitte disclaimed changes only up through 1992 (and not "future changes"). so, either we separate post-1992 stuff and rewrite it (not fun), or we ask him for assignment (i did a couple years back but the process has stalled -- perhaps i missed something due to losing glug.org and other misadventures). i will ask him again. to sum up, things may float side by side for a while (more) and drift together in the future, but in the meantime i don't think we should worry about vms support for Emacs (any version). (cc trimmed.) thi