Re: File watch support in autorevert.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:09:07 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Hmm, as said already I have almost no chance to test it under Windows ...
> >> I would let this implementation to somebody else.
> >
> > So now we will have features which, although equivalent, are only
> > implemented on the platform of the implementer's choice?  If so, what
> > good is it to have the same feature implemented on different
> > platforms?
> 
> It's not "my choice". I simply don't use MS Windows, and so I cannot do
> anything for MS Windows but adding code w/o any test.

If we have a single API that hides the OS dependencies, you will not
need to write 2 versions of the same code, but just one.  Testing that
on platforms that you don't use will then be up to the users of those
platforms, like always in Emacs.