From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:02:27 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039068293 29224 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 06:04:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 06:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jp80-0007bE-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:04:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JpIK-000790-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:15:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jp6I-00059U-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:03:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jp5w-0004Lj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jp5q-00042c-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jp5o-0003pF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 01:02:36 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA14429; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:02:27 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Joe Buehler In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9870 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9870 On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Joe Buehler wrote: > The windows-nt system-type is being used to mean all sorts of things, > such as "be case-insensitive for file names" and some of them apply to > Cygwin, but many do not, because the programming API is that of UNIX. One idea would be to factor the various issues and provide predicates for each one of them, like what we did with display-*-p vs window-system. Then we could have something like system-case-insensitive-filenames-p and the likes, and we could eliminate many of the system-type tests. The need for introducing yet another system-type value will then become a moot point. But that's a substantial job, so someone will need to step forward and volunteer. (I can't do it due to total lack of free time, sorry.)