From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and No Gnus
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:08:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocplz23f.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufocplfkl3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris writes:
> Please install whatever version you prefer, regardless of warnings.
> Personally, I would just expand the define-obsolete-function-alias
> macro (for Emacs 21), and leave the featurep test, since: i) it's
> totally correct today; ii) it seems unlikely XEmacs will ever add
> float-time;
Where *do* you get your information? I had no idea!
> iii) even if it does, it does zero harm if Gnus keeps
> using time-to-seconds there; and iv) since Gnus will want to support
> older versions of XEmacs, you wont be able to remove time-to-seconds
> for many years anyway.
Ah, that turns out not to be the case. It will go into a package,
probably xemacs-base, which means that older versions of XEmacs can
get it conveniently when they update Gnus. It's not like it's needed
to bootstrap.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-07 12:07 Gnus and No Gnus Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-07 21:31 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-08 2:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-08 4:46 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-09-15 8:10 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-08 7:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-15 8:13 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-15 13:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-09-08 5:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-08 7:19 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-08 11:13 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-08 16:49 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-08 19:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-09-09 9:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-15 8:14 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-15 17:15 ` Reiner Steib
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