From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20171024173456.23065.52677@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20171024173457.C45BE2031F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87r2trg01m.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508989377 30287 195.159.176.226 (26 Oct 2017 03:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 03:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 26 05:42:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z4C-0006zd-D9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:42:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50768 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z4J-0003yo-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z4B-0003xk-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z4A-0004vC-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z48-0004r6-9m; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Z47-0006Ty-Vc; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:42:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2trg01m.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:27:01 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219774 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Likely I've missed the discussion, but do we want to distribute Python > scripts with Emacs? I see no reason to stubbornly reject them. All else being equal, it would be better to stick to the languages we use now. (Using more languages would mean more than people need to learn.) But if there is a substantial benefit from using Python, we can. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.