Re: Release plans

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

A Soare wrote:
> > A Soare wrote:
> > > >     Windows hardly matters anymore.
> > > >
> > > >     Windows is not growing much in functionality...
> > > >
> > > > Windows is important as a problem as long as it is non-free and
> > > > considerable numbers of people keep using it.  It is clear that when
> > > > you say it "hardly matters" you are thinking of some other criterion.
> > > I have never known in all my life a person using windows that thought to use 
> > > emacs. All persons that I knew and wanted to (learn lisp)/(use emacs) used 
> > > linux or MAC OSX.
> > >
> > > So a considerable number of peuple use Windows, but (almost) never Emacs in 
> > > Windows.
> >
> > What is your thoughts about that? Is there something to learn from it? 
> > Is there something to investigate?
>
> Quite so! Investing energy to develop it under Windows is (almost) loss of 
> energy!

Yes, I understood that this is what you meant. But in what way did you 
reach this conclusion?


> I know a few cases of _good_ programmers at google, microsoft, etc that never 
> thought to use emacs.
>
> The reason: Windows has nicer environments to write C++, Delphi, C# etc. (that 
> is what they told me).

Then how can it be good to develop Emacs under any operating system?


> That is what peuple does not like : to make effort to understand something that 
> they can have without energy.

Don't you think that those programmers did invest quite a lot of effort 
in understanding the software they are using now?


> Emacs and Linux is used just by peuple that wants to understand how things work.

Do you say that there is no use for Emacs?


> Windows is used by peuple that want to gain money and to arrive quiqkly at 
> their purpose.

Do you say that using Emacs makes it take long time to do things?


> > From all my experience (all what I saw), windows interface for emacs is as 
> > important as the file ./etc/sex.6 in emacs' sources.

Are you saying that this is the only part of Emacs that we should keep ;-)