From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:36:35 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <86ejae96t4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <47DA7943.6090806@gmail.com> <87ve3oes12.fsf@bar.jrock.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205593616 7043 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 15:06:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jonathan Rockway , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 16:07:24 2008 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 4.50) id 1JaXym-00033k-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:07:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaXyC-0006mc-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaXy8-0006je-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaXy6-0006hM-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaXy6-0006hA-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaXy4-0006qn-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a20so1530050tia.10 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:06:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=r3i61Goz5IIeBUadifVwbmiV3/07NWYg3kcmalaPZJ0=; b=aU1N70Iy480i0DZUWMqUJ6HbiCo/JTsE28bpeZXPBEvkR2hNBxS7KeUnfybl8Kw3ACqkuU0a9GpHuZdjTNqdCduFtcHm+487Ryokgl/PUbgvLBnd3R6ksVOER0TIckC6MurgmtnSNnf0djiR3E3w647q/N8zM5P1X712vGLvQJ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MCfZ9g+z3kFUbVq84zmW9OYSb5SZDMCfuJfFAp/qiJfPYZRfWvMddixc+seyutVYbs/lefFS2FaPDgRtioFuKN8aet4Mm+5MvA5GZRca7Fm0M7NTF42Z65GWuPh9ygoFoqBVZm6C7CbG7Lm6qjWbAimK7A7VJdgFK/nExg09fxA= Original-Received: by 10.110.42.13 with SMTP id p13mr3739022tip.34.1205593595429; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.110.3.13 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:06:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:92680 Archived-At: Hi, On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Jonathan Rockway > > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:43:05 -0500 > > > > Windows is lacking in a lot of other features too. > > Actually, it doesn't, it just does it differently. For example, the > shell in the latest versions is quite powerful, but of course is not > compatible with Posix shells. I resisted from responding. Having worked on UNIX (and various flavors), M$ and OpenVMS too, I must say each operating system has a different way of doing things. Just because they are not POSIX compliant does not mean it is bad or unusable. The M$ bashing is a bit old fashioned these days and it makes sense to develop applications that can be used on multiple platforms as the user base is quite evenly distributed. -dhruva -- Contents reflect my personal views only!