John Ericson <l...@johnericson.me> writes: > On 9/19/23 21:07, Po Lu wrote: > > Why not? > > I have on my hand several programs which use -winnt*, such as many old > releases of Emacs. And users should be capable of replacing > config.sub and config.guess with newer versions without ill effect. > > At no point has anyone proposed removing *-winnt-*. And while I think > a deprecation message is a good idea, no one has submitted yet a patch > for that either. > > With Dmitry's plan, you can still upgrade config.sub in those old > versions of Emacs if you like without any issue.
Why should config.sub print anything at all? An extraneous message constitutes ill effect.
