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Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type? |
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Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:10:54 +0100 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:23:50 +1300
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> On a related note (or possibly unrelated), if you type "C-h i d m
>> elisp RET", then "i system-type RET", shouldn't you see the full
>> list of the possible values of that variable. I see no mention of
>> darwin. Is this deliberate?
>
> If `darwin' is the value on some supported system, its omission
> cannot be deliberate, I think.
Secondguessing will get us nowhere: by that we just cement possible
oversights permanently. Policy by accident, "somebody might have
thought something when doing that", is a recipe for disaster in the
long run.
AFAICS, Darwin is free software (while MacOSX isn't). So even if we
try to be semi-"politically correct" by deliberately making using
unfree software more complicated with buggy documentation, more likely
window-system rather than system-type should be affected.
If there was a rationale, I'd prefer hearing instead of guessing it.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: defface doc misses default and some more errors, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/10