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Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:30:42 +0900

Juanma Barranquero writes:
 > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 17:39, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
 > 
 > > C'mon, Juanma, don't egg him on.  It's not about POSIX vs. non-POSIX,
 > > it's about free vs. non-free, which is long-standing Emacs policy (not
 > > to mention the whole purpose for GNU in the first place).
 > 
 > I don't hear as much complaining about the Mac support...

The Darwin kernel is free, and the Mac-only GUI support (ie, based on
the Carbon API) is being phased out in favor of the *Step API (which
still requires some Mac-specific code, I suppose, but it's going in
the right direction).

 > > [...] the costs, which are non-zero (though IMO they're nowhere
 > > near as big as the anti-Windows activists would have it).
 > 
 > That's exactly what my comment implied.

If you say so ... but as far as I can tell the people with any sense
of humor left the debate ages ago.  Explicit Is Better Than Implicit. ;-)




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