Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler()
Justin Sheehy writes:
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> A year or so from now, if things keep going the way they have been,
> nearly all of our users will be on either Linux or some flavor of
> Microsoft Windows. Linux has been the most popular Unix to run XEmacs
> on[1] since 19.14.
> [1] With regards to counts of downloads of binary kits from the FTP site.
Do you really think that this in any way reflects number of users? I
would say that it has almost no connection to number of users per
platform.
...
> This is not to say that I'm in favor of dropping portable Unix
> support. I'm not. It's just not as important as it used to be.
I certainly hope that it continues to be very important.
I find messages such as this one to be very strange and disheartening.
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Justin Sheehy
I strongly endorse and amplify Justin's comments.
Every Linux and NT user is also (either by choice, or by
neccessity) a system administrator. Therefore every one will have to
download all the packages that "finish the machine."
At out shop we have 15 developers using Sun workstations; all
which share a /usr/local/bin.
Once every six months we download and install the latest
supported XEmacs.
So, our download should count (somehow) as vote of fifteen...
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