From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows 9X compatibility Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> <4BAE867D.3030404@gmail.com> <4BAE9ED4.6070900@t-online.de> <4BAEA525.20709@gmail.com> <83iq8ggbcp.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxxs3311.fsf@telefonica.net> <83eij430fc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269906111 2578 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2010 23:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 01:41:45 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOaW-0002Ri-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:41:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOaV-0008Ou-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOYT-0006xO-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41251 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOYS-0006wg-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOYR-00039b-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56581) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOYR-00039X-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOYR-0003tW-8Q; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:35 -0400 In-reply-to: (joakim@verona.se) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122889 Archived-At: Since dynamic linking has now been approved for the Emacs core, That is a misunderstanding. It has not been approved YET. We have a method which we are using in GCC. Lawyers studied it in the context of GCC. Now they are studying how far we can generalize it. I hope it will be reliable to use this in Emacs, but we don't know that yet.