From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update-game-score Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:40:34 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <968-Sat13Apr2002124033+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <8296-Sat06Apr2002111820+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <1018138700.11941.51.camel@space-ghost> <1018508790.10524.31.camel@space-ghost> <4634-Fri12Apr2002154306+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <1018638315.3342.59.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018691342 22405 127.0.0.1 (13 Apr 2002 09:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16wK9W-0005pG-00 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16wKQD-0001xL-00 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:06:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16wK8c-0006dU-00; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from odin.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.10]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16wK62-0006bZ-00 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (diup-219-112.inter.net.il [213.8.219.112]) by odin.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id ABA66565; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:45:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: walters@verbum.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: <1018638315.3342.59.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 12 Apr 2002 15:05:15 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2606 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2606 > From: Colin Walters > Date: 12 Apr 2002 15:05:15 -0400 > > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 08:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > How about keeping the old code, both in gamegrid.el and in games that > > use it, for non-Posix platforms that don't care about security > > (Windows and MS-DOS)? > > Admittedly I haven't really used Windows in several years, but I thought > recent versions were multiuser-capable? They are; but the security support is (IIRC) nowhere as serious and versatile as in Unix and GNU systems. > But, I really don't know how to make update-game-score work on Windows, I think it will work as-is on Windows, but the nuisance with finding a place for the score file is something that needs to be resolved regardless. > I think we can just make a conditional on system-type inside > `gamegrid-add-score'. That's what I meant. Please include ms-dos in that conditional; I'll leave it up to Jason to say what should be done for the Windows port.