Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Would a gnulib-wide option "ignore MSVC portability" be useful for Emacs?
>
> Yes, most probably, because Emacs no longer supports MSVC builds
> (although you might still find traces of that in the sources).
OK, so I'm documenting that the existing practice of Emacs (name
> From: Paul Eggert
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:08:19 -0700
>
> I suppose it'd be nicer if Emacs could use the Gnulib versions of the
> code instead of having its own version, as that would help Emacs and
> other GNU programs share solutions better; but this would require some
> hacking and it'
> From: Bruno Haible
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 22:17:58 +0200
>
> Would a gnulib-wide option "ignore mingw and MSVC portability" be useful for
> Emacs?
Not as a global option, because the MinGW port of Emacs does use some
Gnulib functions.
> Would a gnulib-wide option "ignore MSVC portability" b
On 05/09/2017 01:17 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Eli and Paul,
I'm trying to understand whether the #ifs you are adding for Emacs could
be generalized for gnulib users other than Emacs.
On one hand, Eli writes:
Emacs dropped MSVC support a few years ago. Only MinGW, with its 2
flavors, is curre
Hi Eli and Paul,
I'm trying to understand whether the #ifs you are adding for Emacs could
be generalized for gnulib users other than Emacs.
On one hand, Eli writes:
> Emacs dropped MSVC support a few years ago. Only MinGW, with its 2
> flavors, is currently supported, in addition to Cygwin.
On
