Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes: > Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> writes: >>> Forcing current and future emacs development into the archaic 8.3 mold has >>> a significant cost (just look at how long this thread is), yet provides >>> relatively little benefit. >> >> I also think it is insane, the 8+3 thing. It is a huge burden evidenced >> by loads of weirdly-named files in the repo. > > I don't know whether to call it a "huge" burden, but it is clearly a burden. > > I wonder if there are actually any users...
When we removed support for a lot of old systems 3 years ago MSDOS was on the list of systems to be removed, nobody claimed to still use Emacs on that platform. Since then, there was a single user that said that he still used it.
