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: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:04:40 -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> <48861A51.1090401@gmail.com> <4887C77C.2090109@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 1216937185 28315 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 22:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:06:25 +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 Fri Jul 25 00:07:07 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 1KM8xB-0001MP-VK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:06:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM8wI-0006sB-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM8wC-0006qE-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KM8wB-0006on-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44033 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM8wB-0006oZ-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54999) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KM8wB-0007MQ-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KM8vQ-0001Wm-CO; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:04:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <4887C77C.2090109@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:101426 Archived-At: Developers programs might not have an immediate effect, but I believe the long time aid might be much larger. I see no reason to think such an effect exists. Meanwhile, people have told me that the fact that Emacs runs on Windows undercut their ability to insist on running GNU/Linux at work. Without some sort of demonstration I decline to believe that this helps us.