From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: supporting older versions of emacs (was: Re: bootstrap fails AND how about fixing the byte-compiler?) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:47:30 -0800 Message-ID: <200801160547.m0G5laV0007175@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080116001356.GA3081@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200462926 24030 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 05:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Katsumi Yamaoka , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 06:55:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JF1Fc-0002sQ-DO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:55:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JF1FD-0005tg-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JF1ES-0005b8-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:54:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JF1EQ-0005a2-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JF1EQ-0005Zy-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JF1EP-0005Xy-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JF1Cs-0005EW-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:52:58 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1201067263.82348@pU6TWOmc/PRNAHIFXF8cuw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m0G5laV0007175; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:47:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080116001356.GA3081@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:13:56 +0000") Original-Lines: 11 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86965 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Anyhow, it seems the best solution for cc-vars.el right now (after all, > it's got to work with Emacs 2[01] and various flavours of XEmacs, too), > is to change c-constant-symbol into a macro. It's obviously your choice, but is it worth it to still support emacs-20? 21.1 was released in October 2001. Is the number of people that do not upgrade to emacs-21, but still want to use the latest cc-mode significant enough to be worth the trouble?