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Re: .info files
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: .info files |
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2012 12:16:00 -0700 |
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On 05/04/2012 02:32 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I still don't understand why this should bother anyone except
myself.
Not two hours ago I was impeded in Emacs development by
the MS-DOS support. The problem in this case was that
MS-DOS 8.3 file name limits do not allow two different files named
"gnulib-common.m4" and "gnulib-comp.m4", and this causes a
wrinkle in our mainstream build procedures. In merging
some of my old patches this wrinkle caused a build to fail,
which took some time to figure out.
That's just one example, of course, but there are others.
The point is that the hassle of supporting MS-DOS does
impede other Emacs developers, and this cost needs to be
weighed against the benefit of supporting MS-DOS.
I agree with Glenn that the 24.1 release announcement
would be a good time to take stock of the need to support
Emacs on older platforms.
- Re: .info files, Glenn Morris, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: .info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files, Paul Eggert, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files, Stefan Monnier, 2012/05/04
- Re: .info files, Paul Eggert, 2012/05/05
- Re: .info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/05
- Re: .info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/05
- Re: .info files, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/05/05
- Re: .info files, Glenn Morris, 2012/05/05
- Re: .info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/05/05