From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't build latest emacs on MSW + CRLF display issue Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <807gfadm22.fsf@gmail.com> <83ob8lhkys.fsf@gnu.org> <83ioyth8pd.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2p1h5j7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377567970 11688 80.91.229.3 (27 Aug 2013 01:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 27 03:46:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8MF-0007Pl-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 03:46:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8MF-00037l-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8MC-00037e-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8M8-0005mt-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8M8-0005mp-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8M7-0002Tn-Ay; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:46:03 -0400 X-Spook: Venezuela Saddam Hussein 9705 Samford Road NWO X-Ran: IBQ6:}0#[7zWs:zV)f]S/1oh`V825#JTR-8)3fMPPh6tGZQEJ53*XI@4!Xw`F1J{(VP_P/ X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83d2p1h5j7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:36:12 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163044 Archived-At: I'm not trying to be difficult here, I really just don't understand your logic. Reasons to remove the old method: 1) It's unsupported and out-of-date (eg I know it doesn't build all the manuals. Minor but still a bug.). 2) There's no need to have two separate methods to build Emacs on MS Windows. 3) The new method is obviously preferable since it is the same method used on all other platforms (except MS DOS). Even if 1) changes (and it shows no sign of doing so), 2) and 3) never will. On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason to _not_ remove it. If someone turns up and wants to do 1), it will be the least of their problems to first revert the commit that removed the old method. (But we should not let them anyway, because of 2 and 3.) (BTW, I suggest at least renaming nt/INSTALL to nt/INSTALL.OLD, and INSTALL.MSYS to INSTALL.)