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Forget GNU making a point, maintenance wise having several versions of your program with several different features could easily become hell. As these coloured

by bArray 10y ago

Forget GNU making a point, maintenance wise having several versions of your program with several different features could easily become hell. As these coloured smilies grow additional features, get bugs, etc - Emacs for OSX begins to fork. You then have divided developer time, with typically one fork eventually dying due to lack of funds. Apple users: Take the temporary pain to protect your future.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
I started poking around the emacs mailing list archives looking for drama, and found some messages from this month from RMS getting nervous about the idea of removing support for windows 9x.
- bArray 10y ago
  That's great! Have you got a link?
  - GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00193.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00229.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00...
    - bArray 10y ago
      From what I read, they may look at removing support based on user agent strings which is a terrible idea. Many websites don't support browsers outside of Firefox, MS, Chrome and Safari recent releases, which is why people often hard code their user agent string. Still, it's great to see them take their user base so seriously!