Fair enough. Like I said, I wanted to see what the consensus was, and it seems to be shifting towards not making another list.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Shorya Raj writes: > > > I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific > > mailing list regarding development on Windows, > > One possibly-relevant anecdote. We had such a list for XEmacs, where > the biggest contributor 1998-2005 was Windows-based. *He* preferred > communicating via the main developers' list (the reasons given by > others in this thread were among his reasons), and the "xemacs-winnt" > list devolved into a forum for teaching newbies how to escape spaces > in filenames, and the occasional flame from a Windows-oriented user > who wanted XEmacs to change into a "modern GUI application" (like, > say, Word, except for writing programs). It died a natural death > (long before XEmacs development went dormant). > > N.B. The problem with modern GUI, of course, was that all the Windows- > based developers who contributed any code to speak of liked the mouse- > free pinky-welded-to-the-control-key UI (that's *why* they used > Emacsen). This might not be such a stark contrast in Python, which > doesn't pretend to be a UI. > > On the other hand, the Windows-oriented Python developers (several of > whom are currently inactive for reasons unrelated to their preferred > platform) have never seemed uncomfortable here. > >
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