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 05:37:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkuxuw4z.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19188"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 04:38:12 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 1o0Zy0-0004sy-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 04:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48988 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0Zxz-0000vY-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 22:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0Zx5-0000F1-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 22:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58956) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0Zx5-0002er-7X; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 22:37:15 -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=g4IY1sFLV+iw7Souz6GUsxl+QApOV+ozia2KDgatIks=; b=KZNkJiKZaf0p 1U/+OcGvHRD1W3Y0j1A4IAlFxGVMwHtdyheOOvQAnb42pT/pm6cpoQmkX9PaQrXrlTL0a8GU+xkdA Ml059JWYvbxY8lEyt3sIf/ZkpbfXESQLcoAATVHrqfR87bxHQ81/sf2DaslR0jy0umeh7GkCfZhx5 vOXSLFe208DKIdC4wKaYsK7z5eX6zXIqMzyq4X6VAeOy4oGUp5UziHCDTfr+owHwgDtsDrtQFlelp kbbf+Ka9zK1Blrfr8L6XKm1cwKIt6Y8kdnXAYX+atV7APvVO5tCKT5L1DnCANdOPZ93ZaYSajuDDS v7W0iQXlN5HAEoU5ocqfoA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2484 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 1o0Zx4-0002Kq-Mn; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 22:37:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877d5le76w.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:15 +0800) 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:291125 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Stefan Monnier , yantar92@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:15 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > That's true, but we will have to at least say something about dropping > > support for libc's that don't. Or something. > > Come 2037, the systems with unfixed libc's will automatically become > obsolete. We won't have to do anything. 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.