From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:28 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50da4282-fb9c-6de8-b054-73038a8ea338@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511413051 24838 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2017 04:57:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:57:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 To: Jim Meyering , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 05:57:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHjZl-00061v-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:57:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHjZs-0005bD-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHjZ4-0005U8-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHjYz-0006px-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:35946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHjYz-0006nb-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CA91611E7; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id XlTMVTsdMgh8; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B424A16123A; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id sNhMjPWu4WK1; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94B021611E1; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:56:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220386 Archived-At: Jim Meyering wrote: > Do you think it's worth supporting pre-23 emacs? Ha! We just had a thread discussing this, where I wrote: > currently I would say that Emacs 23.1 is the oldest Emacs we currently = need to worry about For details as to why, please see: https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00500.html