From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:21:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <4D7FDFB0.6020203@cs.ucla.edu> <4D7FEF16.7040107@cs.ucla.edu> <8362rjr9po.fsf@gnu.org> <4hk4fzsnv8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D805B3F.1030900@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300274565 14776 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 11:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 12:22:41 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzooJ-0003ZA-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzooJ-0006J9-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33841 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzoo8-0006Hg-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzoo7-00084n-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:39816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzoo5-00084Z-Rh; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: by yws5 with SMTP id 5so771385yws.0 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:22:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MKwqbplzgIV09HSl/yinogVytG0yx9HlqMdkEjdBQ04=; b=X+vO1eUo+pcqHZE4aoVy/SSn5lOZ1GT26bsfjirtEoyQNcuE4q3PbiS1D18scAmFwZ UnWd9m3MNX2CfOhB05T8V/tVyn8csqRv88MqDDnJMkkAVFZGumkVspnmn/7v18Y9UbLQ 20GImAW8WhhGTO5AZ+aQ+QYUJeLsQ6PELWgBs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=icdQiepsGWSuvUnqn6o3MqCyYFaKocBTgaHOpX69Nh1Xmly31OnMiIRXhjGKLXRt/2 hXz7lNmD/f1BUN6plgjKWIQI4fHXJLAQ3qgFB44H44GJSW2ihWGof3bxK1X401Moam3I eGH/kWrNsD59kpEi5L5/m8tbR/R9SJM//GXGE= Original-Received: by 10.236.168.37 with SMTP id j25mr752989yhl.3.1300274545107; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.147.34.11 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:21:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.213.41 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:137277 Archived-At: I was going to answer to Paul, but I think these comments by Eli are all that needs be said, so I'm repeating them: > There are ifdefs because of Solaris as well. =C2=A0So what? =C2=A0We try = to keep > them to the absolute minimum, and when someone points out to one of > them that is used by DOS alone, I'm always happy to move it away in > any reasonably practical way. [...] > Fine with me, but please try to be less unkind to maintainers of > non-Posix platforms. =C2=A0They are volunteers like yourself. [...] > A shockingly egotistic position. =C2=A0MS-Windows is my main development > platform for working on the bidirectional editing support. =C2=A0Maybe yo= u > will also claim that bidirectional editing is not needed by "the rest > of us", so my work on that is not important. Agreed at 100%. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma