Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Something like a portable mini-bash (with more limited
>     capabilities) that runs also on w32 and could be used together
>     with w32 programs would perhaps make this better.
>
> It would be a shame for people that care about free software to spend
> time implementing free software specifically to run on Windows.

It does not get better if time is spent multiply times for porting
efforts.  If the total of window porting efforts can be reduced by
dedicated efforts, that's not the worst thing.

Anyway, the proposal does not seem to encompass just Windows, but pretty
much every platform, free or not.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum