Re: RE : Re: Files from gnulib

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Forcing current and future emacs development into the archaic 8.3 mold has
>>> a significant cost (just look at how long this thread is), yet provides
>>> relatively little benefit.
>>
>> I also think it is insane, the 8+3 thing. It is a huge burden evidenced
>> by loads of weirdly-named files in the repo.
>
> I don't know whether to call it a "huge" burden, but it is clearly a burden.
>
> I wonder if there are actually any users...

When we removed support for a lot of old systems 3 years ago MSDOS was
on the list of systems to be removed, nobody claimed to still use
Emacs on that platform.
Since then, there was a single user that said that he still used it.