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: Release plans Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:47:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> <20080812171404.GB7999@muc.de> <20080813092057.GA3010@muc.de> <20080814083817.GA2593@muc.de> <877iak7xfp.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <873al79akr.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> <87od3p6tu3.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219204200 25875 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2008 03:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, lord@emf.net, ams@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Johannes Weiner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 05:50:52 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 1KVeih-00046C-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVehk-00075y-88 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVehE-0006jO-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVehC-0006he-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42590 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVehC-0006hU-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36486) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVehC-0005Oq-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KVeft-0005tE-Ew; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:47:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <87od3p6tu3.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> (message from Johannes Weiner on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:44 +0200) 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:102704 Archived-At: It's enough if there is one person providing a patch to run non-free extensions. Such all-or-nothing thinking isn't valid. It is clear that if some sort of add-on depends on people to patch Emacs, that obstacle will discourage its adoption. This will in turn discourage the development of such add-ons. That doesn't absolutely assure no one will develop them, but does help.