From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range? Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:49:04 +0300 Message-ID: <837d5kvl5b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8735gaqm6i.fsf@localhost> <83wndmutg7.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu8qp5um.fsf@localhost> <83r13uurom.fsf@gnu.org> <83k09mueoc.fsf@gnu.org> <877d5le76w.fsf@yahoo.com> <83bkuxuw4z.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9795"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 14:23:59 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o0j6s-0002LG-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0j6r-00052p-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0iZL-0006Qm-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0iZJ-0003s4-Qj; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:49:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=L4OYZmfA3GPAnlVxA1uyuX7YIhQDMQ+7Dv1QArOWktQ=; b=qCxc12zBoPbi 2thW+W7CuXdH0MKpjQKckPV2J4Ove+J3g9BOts48+wEKA2fVi0qRA9DveGbLlA21tK8Req+p4ZP0I Uan3nGDWQJfQZ1v7pc/ywxqiloWxw2+QpT53oniEadSDQJbvHsnj+lTboLi2SITQxx2uZqjRHEnFq NDHNGsaKTV9QhZo4+iRtNx6KWdAvryiYI19AJJhllGRjw3SIV/uAURfiKbJZwp0cYX9Rw6PwROIqJ kocB/bmnvG6fLbcoKF7bIEQ4d7xDRskp5mSjDnzx7DIgdKjmYlL/JHx5yFMKgo9nKIgOMVzJjGZAC irMocWDegq4XiTZoNvMgUQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4308 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0iZJ-0001PE-9C; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:49:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:25:45 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291135 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:25:45 +0200 > Cc: Po Lu , Stefan Monnier , > Ihor Radchenko , Emacs developers > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Emacs compiled with those obsolete libc versions can be moved to a > > newer system, and will generally still continue working. So the > > system can still be alive, but such an old-compiled Emacs on that > > system will die. We will need at least to mention that somewhere. > > Would it be worth writing an entry in the FAQ? (I'm not volunteering: > I don't know enough to write it.) If someone knows what and how to write (I don't), I think this could be a useful addition to the FAQ.