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Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server
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David Kastrup |
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Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:07:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> 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
- w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Lennart Borgman, 2005/07/15
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Jason Rumney, 2005/07/15
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Lennart Borgman, 2005/07/15
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/15
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/16
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/16
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/17
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/17
- Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/18
Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server, David Kastrup, 2005/07/15