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: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.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 1217035631 13816 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2008 01:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lord@emf.net, drobinow@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, hannes@saeurebad.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 26 03:27:59 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 1KMYZi-0004Yg-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:27:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMYYo-0003Mm-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMYWi-0001Xu-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMYWh-0001Wp-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53165 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMYWg-0001Wi-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59526) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMYWg-0002Gz-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KMYVu-0003bJ-DY; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:24:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:20:47 +0900) 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:101484 Archived-At: > 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. This seems pretty surprising ... the sort of people that say "just use windows" are also the sort to say "just use visual studio / notepad / ...". They said they used to tell the boss, "I have to run GNU/Linux so I can run Emacs; otherwise I can't be productive."