From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 01:10:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b72b6514-eb0c-cbf0-53eb-95d218bad257@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > I would argue against this. I removed the material on Windows 9x since
>> > it has long since reached EOL -- 10 years, or 25% of Emacs' existance.
> That is true, but we still try supporting those old systems, as they
> are widespread in the 3rd world.
That may have been true a decade ago, but Windows 9x is no longer a practical
porting target even in the third world. For what it's worth, statcounter.com
lists WinME's popularity as dropping from 0.37% of China's desktop market in
March 2014 to 0.01% in August of this year, and they no longer even bother
measuring its popularity in Africa.
Besides, at this point it borders on technical malpractice to suggest to users
that it's OK to use Windows 9x to run Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-06 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-03 15:32 Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? David M. Miller
2016-11-03 15:39 ` tomas
2016-11-03 16:00 ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 16:26 ` John Mastro
2016-11-03 16:28 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:44 ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 22:21 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-04 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 10:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-05 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 8:10 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 7:00 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 3:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 4:13 ` Noam Postavsky
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