From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278857652 3267 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 14:14:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 16:14:10 2010 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 1OXxII-0006vH-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:14:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXxIH-0000Of-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43664 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXxIB-0000OZ-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXxIA-0003XS-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:37815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXxI8-0003Wr-2l; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so762462ewy.0 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:13:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=oNGlImYn7Urydh2ot3XA0AdPHtHhxqtR/hUjgAgT3kM=; b=TYrhu58KC0sFBb4zWQJl5581kKylPBe6A06PcG0H8sWt0wAKXglVM/xQ2qfrychf+h Q1JJ0a/EmvLNsKohQSxuKndupMNAG2xMg3C+BSCXQebpD/fsZvOfBvH1rm1ZdgI42A1C N75jsBMWn4SYqZMBhkIXLAidZZvvbnAgeSbps= 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; b=kEn+MQO4vBRvw798ZRP4Ivb7D6qfoo0rSI1gX71nxlkr2QoYhVI1dLjn5uHTBBi4kx j2ndUFqOidTYz9/f+HO1GTjBVLxI1v3fxxcFXJCMCPvA4kIp34lzb/lO/mM3qqChswI3 5OmXAx3uoHhfOTIUZqjDQ//A5RwvxX/FqPa1s= Original-Received: by 10.213.15.197 with SMTP id l5mr3308452eba.95.1278857638154; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.15.132 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:13:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:127047 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: >>> But wxwidgets is ancient, clunky, and bloated, and not something Emacs >>> should be depending on lightly. >> >> I will not pretend to know anything about it but the latest release is >> from 2010-04-23. > > I don't mean it's not maintained. No I am getting curious. You obviously know more than me about this. Why do you say wxWidget is ancient? (This is a little bit funny to use the word "ancient" here when Emacs is so old ;-) I know people have had negative opinions about it here before. It looked to me some of it was based on experience, but I am not sure.