From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: <5DEC1D85-FCD4-41FD-ADF0-4E60CAC7AE0B@swipnet.se> References: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412961214 9720 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 17:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 19:13:28 2014 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 1Xcdku-0005Se-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:13:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcdkt-0002Fu-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcdkm-0002EM-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcdkg-0005x8-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailfe09.swip.net ([212.247.155.1]:60077 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcdkg-0005wn-G0; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:13:14 -0400 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe09.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 365756689; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:13:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 212.247.155.1 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:175233 Archived-At: Hello. 10 okt 2014 kl. 18:18 skrev Paul Eggert : > Glenn Morris wrote: >> I suggest Emacs support for OS X 10.4 be explicitly dropped. >> The OS itself is unsupported for 5 years. >=20 > Yes. The general guideline in GNU packages is that when a platform's = supplier no longer supports the platform, the GNU package doesn't need = to support it either. This is a reasonable guideline for Emacs too, = e.g., our recent dropping support for IRIX 6.5 after SGI stopped = support. Since Apple has also dropped support for OS X 10.5 and 10.6, = we should probably drop support for these versions as well. I would not want to drop 10.6, it still has significant usage, 18% in = March according to: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/27/os-x-mavericks-adoption-50/ Also, I have a 10.6 machine. 26.1 would perhaps be reasonable. Jan D.