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: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:44:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <4E23FFB4.1040809@gmail.com> <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> 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 1311216423 6602 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2011 02:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 04:46:59 2011 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 1QjjHu-0002LB-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:46:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjjHt-0000Mp-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjiZA-00016y-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjiJU-0006Gu-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:44630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjiJP-0006GB-DE; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1093884ewy.0 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:44:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FCS3XNAquA2/Yr2FgT7BC7PO4P9x6kBuDieiomiw7/A=; b=lhsUDPTLbcF7Ffa9AR3T9iv7ep1YnYMpl4kVjgjVGwBOb5imKe4Ka4O6l/ItghlXO/ Js8T9yVo+l4Y334jlC6obKtlmniQtWxRF5/3sVtZYOcQ6VErWdZb7Cx4F42Cw0pKk0dS LKCHzc0qo0KesH2lAgfcl2p+F03P7nD0V858g= Original-Received: by 10.213.27.143 with SMTP id i15mr7890ebc.38.1311212665158; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.114.16 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:44:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:142183 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 00:08, Richard Stallman wrote: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0I don't recall that discussion. =C2=A0Can we reopen it? =C2= =A0According to [1], > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%. > > That must be hundreds of thousands of people. > > We should not be in a hurry to delete code that is already in Emacs > and might be useful for someone. If there really are any such users I doubt that they will upgrade to a newer Emacs on that machine. So I see no reason keeping the support for W9x.