Hi Eli, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
> Since this was brought up (and comes up from time to time), and since > Collin here is listening as well, let me explain the issues we have > with Gnulib in Emacs on MS-Windows. > > The main point to keep in mind is that Emacs is still striving to > support very old Windows systems, including Windows 9X. I know that > Gnulib decided to drop support for those some time ago, and will > probably drop XP as well in some not-too-distant future, but Emacs > didn't and probably won't. Thanks for the detailed explanations and responses to Bruno's questions. Perhaps I'll find some time to setup a virtual machine or something with an old Windows install. Being able to check my changes to any module Emacs imports would be nice. > I hope I made the situation and our logic behind it clear, but feel > free to ask any followup questions, and thanks for listening. Not at the moment, I think you and Bruno covered most of the important stuff. I'm subscribed to emacs-devel so if anything ever comes to mind I can ask. Collin
