From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: elpa.gnu.org policy
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:56:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4275284843F14EA28B88B12693F4F736@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y68tz96e.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> Yeah... well, back in the 90s, it made sense to support all the
> different Emacs versions, because the development direction
> of the main Emacs was so, er, interesting. Ahem.
Revisionism.
Emacs development today is not as robust and inventive as it was in the 90s
(including Epoch, Zmacs,...), in spite of far better communication today and a
larger number of software developers and Emacs users around the planet.
Far from being some horrible Frankenstein experiment gone bad, that was a
fertile period for Emacs development.
(In my view.)
> So there really were reasons for people not to just use
> the latest Emacs. But I don't really see that as
> much of an issue any more...
Get real. There are lots of people _today_ who use other than the latest Emacs.
That you don't understand that or the different reasons they do so is too bad.
> Me too. I wish it was possible to just write towards Emacs 24 and
> pretend that nothing else existed
Right, who cares about users?
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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 15:40 ELPA policy Julien Danjou
2010-11-15 17:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 18:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-15 20:33 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 21:41 ` rainbow-mode (was: ELPA policy) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-15 21:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-15 22:06 ` rainbow-mode Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 5:11 ` rainbow-mode Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-16 13:25 ` rainbow-mode Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 14:03 ` rainbow-mode Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 14:22 ` rainbow-mode Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 14:44 ` rainbow-mode Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 14:50 ` rainbow-mode Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 15:05 ` rainbow-mode Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 15:53 ` rainbow-mode Julien Danjou
2010-11-16 15:39 ` rainbow-mode Drew Adams
2010-11-17 4:02 ` rainbow-mode Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-15 21:56 ` rainbow-mode Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 22:05 ` rainbow-mode Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 3:15 ` rainbow-mode Glenn Morris
2010-11-16 4:06 ` rainbow-mode Chong Yidong
2010-11-16 5:55 ` rainbow-mode Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 13:50 ` elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs (was: rainbow-mode) Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 15:01 ` elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs Chong Yidong
2010-11-16 15:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 19:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 20:02 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-16 21:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 18:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 18:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 18:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-17 8:01 ` AUCTeX inclusion [Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs] Dan Nicolaescu
2010-11-17 15:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-18 4:25 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-11-19 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-11-20 7:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-11-20 8:20 ` David Kastrup
2010-11-22 14:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 18:29 ` elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs Eric Schulte
2010-11-16 19:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 20:32 ` Eric Schulte
2010-11-17 19:29 ` Richard Stallman
2010-11-17 19:45 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-17 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-17 22:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-19 6:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-11-17 23:17 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-17 23:34 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-18 15:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-20 10:05 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2010-11-20 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-22 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-22 16:47 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-22 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-23 17:19 ` Richard Stallman
2010-11-23 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-22 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-18 0:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-18 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-16 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 19:44 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-16 20:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 21:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 21:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-17 4:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-11-15 21:06 ` ELPA policy Edward O'Connor
2010-11-16 3:26 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-15 17:27 ` elpa.gnu.org policy (was: ELPA policy) Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-15 18:01 ` elpa.gnu.org policy Lluís
2010-11-15 18:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-15 20:19 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 21:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-15 22:06 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-15 22:20 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 22:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 4:03 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-16 13:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 14:10 ` compat unification (was: elpa.gnu.org policy) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 15:31 ` compat unification Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 15:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 22:20 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-16 15:56 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-11-15 18:50 ` ELPA policy Tom Tromey
2010-11-15 22:10 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-15 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-15 20:12 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-15 21:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
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