From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature freezes and Emacs 25 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:23:35 +0200 Message-ID: <56423627.3000204@yandex.ru> References: <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <837fluqkd1.fsf@gnu.org> <56411972.4080900@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447179827 31313 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 18:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 19:23:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDa5-0008KJ-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:23:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDa5-0006sh-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDa1-0006rW-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDZy-0005Yh-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]:38693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDZy-0005Yd-JA; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so14580437wme.1; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7fwoz8RcECBqQejOYvrP7NoGYjygas+y4I+t3OTpwjo=; b=tq5Wdc5Ft8jPNbqUXcRV2kALRvY+KGupiJvEMertUcm8yHDQ+xyJTCV4Brh55Vhi3z 7lOUrVecJPVHR/6UzfsAi0nycyZfmUPJadS9sshttCljpF6RaNclbBgHUfjap3JoFH6Q rmjnJvVZGGoicX7bz2JopQSZzEnXiRDhgtWUxUQj60+l0GY0r9qB7U7XZeRNIodbzRnF XgSKBnA9/EmnKL1HfowbaE9to+pBmeuUBgIiyiMmFUkjfjB3sekMo2eznf0CqIOlyVq4 wvB4tdHL4kDD+d7QGRfU0+4Tko137fFp8D1KttAjp7ZOEQm1la98vnAOB4boLmObMYRh le8g== X-Received: by 10.194.192.106 with SMTP id hf10mr5576937wjc.131.1447179817878; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.9.0.103] (nat.webazilla.com. [78.140.128.228]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id vr10sm4818792wjc.38.2015.11.10.10.23.36 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:23:37 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/42.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193912 Archived-At: On 11/10/2015 08:17 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > We don't have to be governed by that. > It's easy enough to make a branch for 24.6. Yes, if you're prepared to ignore the third-party code that has Emacs version checks, declared dependencies on Emacs 25.1 in certain packages, and existing blog posts "what's going to be in Emacs 25". Which would be a bad decision, IMO.