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: Emacs on OS X development Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316023589 15778 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 18:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:06:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Eilert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 20:06:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqj-0003OR-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:06:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqi-0006W7-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54805) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqc-0006Vr-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqa-0005Y8-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqa-0005Y0-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3tqa-0005Sf-CH; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:06:08 -0400 X-Spook: keyhole Area 51 Ortega clandestine wire transfer BATF emc X-Ran: *Zq!g9vG=u=|BWm^HrW-oj&lYSM!KF~1@bw75O4\!d`==Fhd\!6=9d);QWe?X@>KLNb-WI X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stephen Eilert's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:30:07 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:144034 Archived-At: Stephen Eilert wrote: > Why have the ports been merged then? Following this reasoning, people > who wanted to run it on other operating systems would have to maintain > their own patches, therefore not wasting FSF resources. Obviously this kind of issue has been covered many times in the history of the GNU project. See eg http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Platforms