From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 644d31a 2/2: Replace the usage of an obsolete function in auth-source.el Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:43:22 +0100 Message-ID: <878u6aq611.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20151011210306.16935.15935@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87a8qs2oy8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871tc2sq1l.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446924463 8470 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 19:27:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 19:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 20:27:31 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 1Zv999-0005nV-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:27:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv998-00015A-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv98w-000154-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv98v-0000s3-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:27:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv98v-0000rz-Ar; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58954 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv98n-0005Qc-Gu; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:27:09 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5BBA0DF5C0; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:43:22 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:26:31 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:193562 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > I don't think we should consider Emacs 23 "old" yet. I would > > > guess that many users still use it. Indeed, one of the machines > > > I use has Emacs 21.4 installed. > > > But it is unlikely that you are going to update it with a current > > version of Gnus. > > I won't, but some people using a system they don't maintain, with an > old Emacs installed, might want to run a newer Gnus. New programming features are developed because they make developers' life easier and the code base more maintainable, lowering the barrier of entry for new blood. So for systems like Gnus, I would prefer to leave the decision of which compatibility to pursue to the active maintainers of Gnus (or whatever subsystem we are talking about). They likely know best how many of their users and how many of their developers complain about which kind of thing. -- David Kastrup