From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request for policy ruling - dropping Arch support fom VC?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:07:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <548264E4.9090908@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141205231217.B9D6F383525@snark.thyrsus.com>
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> What is policy on this sort of thing?
A good rule of thumb is that if external software is no longer supported by its
own community, then Emacs needn't worry about it. That's why Emacs dropped
support for IRIX, for example -- SGI retired IRIX about a year ago. So if Arch
has been retired, we can remove support for it from Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-06 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-05 23:12 Request for policy ruling - dropping Arch support fom VC? Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-06 2:07 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2014-12-06 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-06 6:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-06 9:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-12-06 10:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-06 13:40 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-12-06 13:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-06 22:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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