Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

[Lennart Borgman]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I guess you mean logical relation?
>
> Causal. Arguing for bug fixes does not cause you having to do an
> alternate distribution. So the fact that you argue for bugs has no
> bearing on whether you do an alternate distribution or not. I do argue
> for bug fixes. I don't have my own distribution.

Maybe. I actually started my distribution because it was so damned 
difficult to get Emacs into a working condition on w32. I recently added 
some gnuwin32 binaries to make it easier. (I have long been thinking 
about doing this but wanted to test a long time first. And have others 
opinion of course.) My thoughts at the beginning was that no one has 
time to set this up any more. What a pitty, that makes it much harder 
for those developers/web developers wanting to go from w32 to GNU/Linux 
later.

> > At the moment I think the benefits outweighs the problem, but if some of
> > the more nagging bugs/missing features were corrected I think I would
> > change my mind.
>
> Your distribution gets notoriety as a "better way to use Emacs on
> Windows", i.e., it's better for an Emacs user on Windows to use yours
> than the standard one. If you someday change your mind, there's
> nothing stopping someone from deciding that he will continue
> maintaining the "improved for Windows" version.
>
> I'm not saying it is going to happen. I'm not ever saying it is likely
> to happen. But it is not difficult to happen. Some projects never
> fork; others... well, look at GNU Arch / Baz / Bazaar / ArX.

You have a point there of course. I do not wish this. However it would 
be much easier if my patches were a bit more seriously considered. As I 
have tried to explain many times I hardly ever consider them as final 
patches. I want comments on them but not dismissing. I always have a 
problem I want to solve with them (and it is hardly only for myself).

Of course I am not a C programmer, I had never seen lisp before I tried 
Emacs. I am not either a *nix user. I do not know the *nix API:s at all. 
Why I mention this? Because I have got the impression that it is a bit 
difficult to come into this from the w32 side. However for the success 
of a project like Emacs it is of course important that we meet with our 
different knowledge. (I guess everyone agree, but it does not really 
feel that way always.)