From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interest in nt_load_image? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86369r0xcv.fsf@csic.es> <83k1324m60.fsf@gnu.org> <86imimwa4t.fsf@csic.es> <838sji3qhx.fsf@gnu.org> <86lfnhsyei.fsf@csic.es> <83v9ml3kpx.fsf@gnu.org> <86r1x9rf7w.fsf@csic.es> <83pnct3ikf.fsf@gnu.org> <83imil3d8r.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="91094"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 20:42:20 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzMZ-000NZY-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54928 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzMY-0003p0-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzLo-0003Dk-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzLn-0008RY-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:12345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIzLl-0008PX-HA; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id AA7BE100596; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C0EFF1004B3; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:26 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1585593686; bh=gJroPlU4OEbAvFCT1X6fGkHLAOid6JKTTUtvDk5rsxI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=gR6g1+2ULc/zCP/IynsqI504K7bExQxAUqO5stzkQ1tBPAqe6CmzvAjnvLAcFF59W 3t4lq27R6gnl96uvdy4djw/JBazk0juq9d/ohXV+NfmWSFl0NUazDX/u5sENNLJ/gU xOs1mA5B7PCBpvaLa7weRmssaB8IUidhK43i2mfp0HAzz+pNZvjZ0FCMjrUkJmn3o1 d/hj+9407MWIT5gty4DJ9XDfU+Lb1BUTDWRnNbsxEmWp/f3d6aKlzCoi/orcmnbWIi jDYIjt6m4ZxB2/dsgdC7e+jtNpmVdcxx+q7Z09XD7TECWb9qOkmbFHfwrs+Q/E6txl 6hfKDdpZwOONA== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.241.114]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86CA012033E; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:41:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83imil3d8r.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:32:20 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246053 Archived-At: > I don't see the point. We have enough real issues to worry about, > let's not waste precious resources on trying to figure out whether the > 9X code can be dropped. I don't see what resources you're talking about. >From where I stand, you're suggesting to "waste precious resources" trying to make the code hypothetically work in Windows-98, whereas I'm suggesting we don't do that and let other people come whining if they suffer the consequences. > One day it will die of natural causes, no need to invest even > a minimal effort in that. I'm not sure how that would happen: if noone tries to run current Emacs on Windows-98 any more, then we'll never discover that it doesn't run there any more. So in this context, what would be a scenario where it would die? Stefan