From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216747866 27767 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 17:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, drobinow@gmail.com, hannes@saeurebad.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, miles@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 19:31:54 2008 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 4.50) id 1KLLiF-0001kh-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:31:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLhM-00053N-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLgc-0004aV-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLga-0004YJ-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58919 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLLgZ-0004Xv-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51061) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLLgZ-0003LX-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KLLfo-0000Jo-1C; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:29:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101229 Archived-At: And once again: If this did not work easily on w32 too it might stop people from using it. We must reject any presumption that free programs should work on Windows. It is ok to cooperate with users who want to add such support, but we must not make it part of the expected goals of a free software project. I think the GNU maintainer conventions file talks about this.