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: .info files Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831uns3rgj.fsf@gnu.org> <8362cc70la.fsf@gnu.org> <4FA42AF0.2020304@cs.ucla.edu> <83lil7659z.fsf@gnu.org> <4FA44B0C.40807@cs.ucla.edu> <83ehqz5cq4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336248869 4295 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2012 20:14:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 20:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 22:14:28 2012 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 1SQlN5-0002pJ-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 22:14:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQlN5-0002Na-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQlN3-0002NV-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQlN1-000772-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:40742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQlN1-00076i-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQlMz-00066j-7G; Sat, 05 May 2012 16:14:21 -0400 X-Spook: Tony Blair enemy of the state World Trade Center global X-Ran: 4U_Jo1WUV:r|O7na:UM>/7MC3J:4XI*KD>!.+t2\sJMv)NMVzaQ+558kv;tKT1sr]jEju" X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM 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: 208.118.235.10 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:150306 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It is being blown out of proportions for reasons that have nothing to > do with maintenance. Speaking for myself, you are attributing motives to me that I do not have. > Currently, I decided that I will support the MS-DOS port for as long > as I have time and energy to work on Emacs. Fine, now I understand the situation, so I don't need to bring it up again. For you to be involved in Emacs, the MS-DOS port should stay around, and how much usage it gets is not a factor. I think it's a bargain price for your labour! :) I still don't see what the big deal is with trying to establish how many people are using Emacs on these less common platforms. Note that I did not say "and then let's remove the ones that aren't used much". I just think it would be interesting data to have, and the release of a new major version seems like a good time to take stock. For example, I have no idea why "Ultrix" (last release 1995?) gets a mention on the Emacs homepage.