From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:05 -0400 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> <834og6uduu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278883533 9311 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 21:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie , miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 23:25:20 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 1OY41W-0003Yh-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY41V-000688-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48379 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY41O-00067e-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY41N-0002Gh-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:39537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY41K-0002G7-SR; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so5115323iwn.0 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:25:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=P5JWHPTVTEaewxBdvUF2RQmbUuvnakohE3GKCGXqPFI=; b=Kf9ZL+z1CbTqKXSCDwKCjq5bAVOh/YsHwjuKOepnwl+/0pyX7I2rWFtkXoLx6AkCLj 8ksvC+G4XY9p9eBTdHMlPdo//mFmLnNCxS+8SkiAv/a6m0tucNlDwctExqvu/hIIz1Eo a99DIURyXi/rMLtNGPU/e81Ohsv1SgzdN1wBs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=eCSSTc29JMBkh/InIPbV+JUOFRiwhMqFgk0LpvKKjY0+vPe1xS20zHnYUihD39pYjv SpAOgjgUK9t9stfa1+4tRC8LfswgDx4MdC+12MvuVEqG+wEEUZVqOUFIFz1H2BxZTyW5 EdJ+9h0/SEJu1GpizmpRSZL4GD4SCCUFwED4Q= Original-Received: by 10.231.32.200 with SMTP id e8mr13220955ibd.66.1278883505129; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.199.6 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:25:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <834og6uduu.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8tDeuOLdlwfkkUOWkZAHpr-ErL4 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:127070 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Alan Mackenzie >> >> In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we >> could use wxWidgets. > > Maybe Lennart will volunteer for that job. Bjarne Stroustrup pretty much beat Lennart to it. It is mostly a project decision to invoke the C++ rather than the C compiler. The gcc project recently took the plunge: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00705.html /john