From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:17:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skijidlh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prdorqf1.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
Miles Bader writes:
> I hope 19.29 is just an arbitrarily-chosen example -- 19.29 was released
> 14 years ago! Unless you really have users using older versions, there
> seems little reason to go to great lengths to support them.
A recent (October 2008) survey of a famous 4-letter financial firm
showed that about 5% of the >200 developers who responded were using
Emacs 19 variants (including Lucid Emacs 19.6 and Emacs 19.8 IIRC),
and there were more than 1% using Emacs 18.
I think it's quite possible that he has such users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 7:18 Readings for an emacs package maintainer ? Xavier Maillard
2009-06-01 9:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-01 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 18:56 ` Reiner Steib
2009-06-01 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-01 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 12:43 ` Xavier MAILLARD
2009-06-01 14:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-02 2:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-06-02 2:36 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-02 12:02 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-02 14:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-01 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 16:21 ` Bastien
2009-06-01 17:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-01 22:01 ` Leo
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