Nick Roberts schrieb: > > > > Unfortunately, I have only a dial-up connection and can't give > > > > immediate feedback on new Emacs versions. > > > > > > One advantage of using CVS over tarballs is that you only need to > download > > > the (compressed) _changes_. Even with a dial-up connection that > shouldn't > > > take a long time. > > > > Thanks for the hint. I am already familiar with rcs, actually. But I > > didn't set up a proper environment for compiling Emacs by myself yet. > > There just wasn't much use in that so far. :) > > While it helps to just report bugs and with due respect, it's not reasonable > to > claim that the Emacs developers don't give the Window port a high priority,
If you could cite from a message where I _claimed_ that, it would be much easier for me to respond to that. After rereading my message, I think I didn't claim anything about Emacs development, but only wrote up some personal experiences I've made with Emacs on Windows during the last years. In fact, in >>> Personally, I'd categorize this bug as a show-stopper for a >>> stable release. On the other hand, I don't know if Windows is an >>> officially supported platform. Could someone please clarify >>> that? And what user base does Emacs target to? I finally asked about the relevance of the Windows port, but couldn't see an answer or a pointer to some manifest or such so far. Honestly, it's not clear to me how Emacs and Windows relate. > if you're not in a position to even test the patches which are > provided. Even if I were able to compile and test patches I don't think that brought me into a position to claim anything about Emacs development. I'll try my best to make my points more clear in the future, but honestly, I can't see yours. Currently, I tend to guess you're trying to say: "You'd better shut up as long as you're not an active developer!" I could agree that this is not the right list. > Some developers work hard on that very issue, Sorry, for bothering you (all). I didn't notice that. To my defence, not being a developer, I don't see how I could have got aware of what's going on behind the scenes other than testing pre-built binaries from time to time and reading several Emacs related mailing lists (watching just this item). Best regards, Stephan Hennig _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
