From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carsten Mattner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnutls for lose32 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:09:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87aa68dfao.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4F0154F1.6000002@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325509779 4744 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2012 13:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , rms@gnu.org, nmav@gnutls.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 14:09:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhhdq-0001wN-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhhdj-0002Jf-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhhdh-0002JZ-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhhdg-0005DQ-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:39942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhhdd-0005Bt-Sm; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: by iacb35 with SMTP id b35so32024933iac.0 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:09:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ym4+CvUKAJl2BfkypRgXaPLsK9OOjIIROp3oMkvC2UE=; b=xIjoFsWDAa7If18nC607U3AKHd4+z6ul33Q1v1ewu0o7Ya7ZEDci/Pi6dL0ltGwz34 shRU4Bm+mHRv5C7K+CDcC8Xp9rdik85fAC8XoueVbbA1B3AjrhUkm5HP4WlmC26+SzfM UUdwLm8zVCglemS1Fjx4bX2052K36wKhSkvF4= Original-Received: by 10.42.29.6 with SMTP id p6mr49692168icc.44.1325509757394; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:09:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.50.106.132 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 05:09:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147173 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:46, Carsten Mattner > wrote: > >> I'm not sure this is a good idea. >> "win32" is used in the same way as "posix" to refer to a set of >> platform APIs. "win" alone should be expanded. > > And yet, imagine that Microsoft were to add some program, library or > product called "Windows Win", and that we had to refer to it in the > documentation. What would we call it? "Windows Lose"? Really? And > would that really help the users in any way, or just confuse them? > > I won't deny the power of words. But sometimes, a name is just a name. > The crusade against "win32" is a bit silly IMHO; it's hard to believe > that anyone, outside of a few old timers, reads it as "a form of > praise". Is the intent to hide or deny the existence of Windows? In any case, I believe this wastes resources better applied for real Emacs work.