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

[David Kastrup]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

I apparently mixed up "deliberate" with some synonymon of "arbitrary".
Sorry for the confusion.  It might have helped if your reply had
included a suggested course of action.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum