Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jason Rumney wrote: > >> Lennart Borgman wrote: >> >>> I just want to tell that w32 still have no working >>> emacsclient/server. Gnuserver/client is a workaround, but as far as >>> I understand this can currently not be part of Emacs because of >>> license problems. >>> >>> This sums up (in my opinion) that we can not distribute a fully >>> working Emacs on w32. What should we do about this? >> >> I am not sure what you are suggesting here. Are you suggesting that >> we withdraw all support for Windows due to the support we do have >> not being "fully working"? Are you suggesting that someone(TM) >> should drop every thing else in their life and port emacsclient now? >> If so, are you willing to pay for that to happen? > > Please don't shoot the messenger.
There is no message worth noting. We don't have a working emacsclient on w32, and that's well-known. It won't magically come into being by throwing a tantrum. >> What is wrong with carrying on with what we have been doing for the >> last 10 years, ie doing the best we can with the limited resources >> we have? > > I know we have done as much as we can but I do not think we have > reached our goal in this case. I am looking for a way to handle > this and I hope for good suggestions. The way to handle this is to create a working implementation of emacsclient. Feel free to go ahead. > The first thing is to hope for someone who can and want to do > this. If this fail I think we at least should tell the truth about > the state of Emacs in this respect. Where do we lie about it? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
