From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 28630@debbugs.gnu.org, tom@tromey.com, agrambot@gmail.com,
dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#28630: 27.0.50; C-g while a non-main thread is sitting crashes Emacs
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:04:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQcy85mWRrwmsCU0DEW5t9YwxBVkbNWwaadw3PhP+hoYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833770195e.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Di., 3. Okt. 2017 um 18:37 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:22:56 +0000
> > Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 28630@debbugs.gnu.org, tom@tromey.com,
> > agrambot@gmail.com
> >
> > > Since no released version of Emacs has thread support, I'm not
> surprised that they aren't widely used
> > yet.
> >
> > Well, I am, because Reddit, for example, is full of people who say
> > they use Emacs 26.
> >
> > I guess there's a huge selection bias at play. Most users typically use
> whatever version their OS distributor
> > provides, and that's often not even Emacs 25. Libraries tend to support
> 24.x as well, and therefore can't use
> > threads until they drop compatibility with both 24.x and 25.x.
>
> We are talking about developers, not users. And newer versions can be
> supported by using the relevant version-comparison stuff.
>
Sure, but it's already a lot of work to use threads unconditionally, and
they are a feature that can't be easily polyfilled. So I can understand
that library developers are hesitant.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-28 7:22 bug#28630: 27.0.50; C-g while a non-main thread is sitting crashes Emacs Alex
2017-10-01 3:18 ` Alex
2017-10-01 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-01 18:10 ` Alex
2017-10-01 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 4:30 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-02 12:43 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-02 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-04 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-04 7:49 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-04 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-04 8:32 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-04 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-05 3:27 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-05 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-07 13:53 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-07 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-07 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-09 8:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-09 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-09 10:34 ` mituharu
2017-10-09 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-04 7:39 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-10-04 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-02 5:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-10-02 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 9:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-10-03 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 14:50 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-03 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 16:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-10-03 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 17:04 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-10-01 10:08 ` Alan Third
2017-10-01 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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