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Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Mention darwin as a possible value for system-type?
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:12:37 +0200

> Cc: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:10:54 +0100
> 
> > 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.

Once again David Kastrup pounces on someone guided by nothing else but
his own misunderstandings: all I meant to say was that the omission of
`darwin' is a bug that should be fixed.




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