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Re: What does the error "Process <URL> not running" mean?


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: What does the error "Process <URL> not running" mean?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:53:19 +0100

>>>>> On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:34:36 +0800, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> said:

    Po> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    Eli> And finally, Gnulib dropped Windows 9X support long ago, so its module
    Eli> will not run on those old versions (and actually is unlikely to run
    Eli> even on Windows XP, as they've abandoned that as well).

    >> At some point we have to stop supporting ancient platforms.

    Po> Windows XP is hardly ancient, and at my day job we have a machine
    Po> running Windows 98 used for legacy government software, and it's
    Po> convenient to be able to run a recent version of Emacs there.

OK, so we canʼt wholesale port the gnulib module, but thereʼs nothing
stopping us from using winsock's 'select' (except that someone needs
to actually do the work)

Robert
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