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bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image
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Xah Lee |
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bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image |
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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:37:19 -0700 |
lmy ast message contain a little editorial mistake.
Xah wrote:
. For example, Visual Basic and PHP today are perhaps the most used
languages if one count the pencentage of number of programers for these
langs.
I meant to say, yet these people downloads FSF's emacs for Windows, and
there's no php mode or visual basic mode by default. To these poeple, "emacs
sucks" right there.
This clause is just meant to support my view that DLL for images should be
included. I don't mean to start to argue about why php mode or visual basic
mode are not included by default or any philosophy.
This is probably my last message on this particular bug report. Thanks.
Xah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>; <4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Cc: <jasonr@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image
Hi Eli & other GNU Emacs developers,
perhaps this is controversial... but doesn't FSF people want GNU Emacs to
be working out of the box on Windows?
it is trivial to include the dll libs for images.
The other recent bug is about ftp not working out of the box on GNU Emacs
binary for Windows downloaded from FSF site, whereas Lennart's EmacsW32
distribution includes a Open source ftp binary that fixed the problem.
I feel that it would be great for all features of emacs work out of the
box as much as possible for platforms that are supported by FSF.
Since FSF does develope a version of emacs that works for Windows... i
don't understand if there is a reason to not include these DLLs?
The only reason i can think of is that perhaps FSF prefer emacs to be work
well for GNU/Linux and does not take extra steps to make it work as well
for “non-free” Windows. If this is the reason to not include image library
DLLs for Windows, i feel this perhaps damaging to the spread of FSF
philosophy, since many Windows people who tries emacs and just find it not
working in many situations. For example, Visual Basic and PHP today are
perhaps the most used languages if one count the pencentage of number of
programers for these langs.
btw, I should mention this message is just meant to address this image dll
issue pertaining this bug report, not meant to argue about philosophy or
best approach to FSF philosophy. I feel that a binary version of Emacs for
Windows downloaded from FSF's official site and not able to open image
files is something like a show-stopper bug.
Thanks.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, (continued)
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Xah Lee, 2009/09/09
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Jason Rumney, 2009/09/09
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/09
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Xah Lee, 2009/09/15
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/14
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Jason Rumney, 2009/09/14
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Lennart Borgman, 2009/09/15
- bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/15
bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image, Xah Lee, 2009/09/09
bug#4367: marked as done (23.1; unable to view this png image), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2009/09/09
bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image,
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