From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Barros Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:31:14 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bpaeumdx.fsf@gnu.org> <20100711150142.GB3134@muc.de> 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 1278862296 16285 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 15:31:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:31:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, Lennart Borgman , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , miles@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 17:31:31 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 1OXyV5-0006t0-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:31:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXyV4-0001Ij-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51486 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXyUx-0001Ie-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXyUw-0005b0-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:44153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXyUu-0005ai-Ti; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: by gwb1 with SMTP id 1so2749434gwb.0 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:31:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HBmSdj1mUTCcY8K5HJfHpLhUahaPpRGz/DyEWfh8XQ8=; b=FjwKvKn+TcexYcAc8JHnYOsC6WbuN3Hp8b5Q6QnyPSl5JqdAeFXUVsxUbIE/MmjfMc k+0MIiZ2XRq0eZyUmmRpKeqGHtKvcMJgxKTSMmiXDNP2Cr/F66c1/jsLnptWCoU3tOFG f0DrLzCgb15wFyg6WLG5OjSGDh6daImw8R5CQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pyiR6cMbZna43Rxt1DOe5R2DowFsAfvCSLxz8yTsj5SyDM3vgOx1+CYXuVuim1nxHU KNqamxHFxbMBfbkfiXAi7VsbU/cwuO00C0BTIfHOaSGmFHqe0mqkcuUoHr8AVY6m2DMo 1E0xClSKEl2Ic7H0ZrWMy4xeAU3mGSgE0tCL0= Original-Received: by 10.90.52.20 with SMTP id z20mr9197594agz.61.1278862274886; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.15 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:31:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100711150142.GB3134@muc.de> 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:127053 Archived-At: It's 21 celcius in Sao Paulo. Happy hacking day! 2010/7/11 Alan Mackenzie : > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:24:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > From: Lennart Borgman >> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200 >> > Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.= org > >> > 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 E= macs >> > >>> 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. > >> According to their docs, wxWidgets is for C++, not for C, so Emacs >> cannot use it. > > In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we > could use wxWidgets. > > (Hey, it's over 35 degrees (of the Celsius variety) here in Nuremberg; > this doesn't encourage high quality hacking. =C2=A0I'm kind of wondering = how > far over Europe this blanket of smothering heat extends.) > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > >