From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/? Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:45:05 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4n1xfrx64u.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nzn2jud2r.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098384329 29603 80.91.229.6 (21 Oct 2004 18:45:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:45:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 20:45:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKhwB-0004Cc-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKi3d-00078t-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKi3V-00078o-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKi3V-00078c-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKi3V-00078Z-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKhvx-0005uG-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CKhvw-0008U7-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu ([134.174.9.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by asimov.bwh.harvard.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:45:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: asimov.bwh.harvard.edu X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PgtA1sckDpaASX4S/hU8H9hNFSw= 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28704 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28704 On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, rms@gnu.org wrote: > Gnus is mainly useful to the GNU Project is as a part of Emacs. > Support for using new versions of Gnus in old Emacs versions is nice > if you want to do it, but it's not essential for Gnu. What is considered "old"? 21.2 and lower? 21.1 and lower? Also I know a lot of effort goes into making Gnus compatible with XEmacs. Is that consistent with your views? > I don' think this is a hard problem to solve, once you put your mind > to it. If there's a cutoff, sure. Testing on multiple Emacs versions is the real pain, I think the users mostly do it for us. Thanks Ted