Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

[Po Lu]

John Ericson <list@JohnEricson.me> writes:

> 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.

Why should config.sub print anything at all?  An extraneous message
constitutes ill effect.