Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

[John Ericson]

    On 9/19/23 21:07, Po Lu wrote:
> Why not?
>
> I have on my hand several programs which use -winnt*, such as many old
> releases of Emacs.  And users should be capable of replacing config.sub
> and config.guess with newer versions without ill effect.
>

At no point has anyone proposed removing *-winnt-*. And while I think a deprecation message is a good idea, no one has submitted yet a patch for that either.

With Dmitry's plan, you can still upgrade config.sub in those old versions of Emacs if you like without any issue.

John