From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:49 -0500 Message-ID: <9g63w0eleu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <874pbwvmlv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ir01krr7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lk4wena2.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204763959 6661 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 00:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 01:39:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JX48y-0007tg-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:39:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX48Q-00008m-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX48M-00006q-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX48K-0008Ut-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX48K-0008UR-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX48J-0001vM-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JX48H-000274-U6; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:38:49 -0500 X-Spook: INS Mahmoud Ahmadinejad George W. Bush JSOFC3IP Iran CID X-Ran: A/hKIRCLZ&cOY`Zgnjh(wq+XkEW[fa:>B`@>CSO3jjLScU_'|,PVZA6E+CWj,:5k)PBL1' X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87lk4wena2.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:58:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91453 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm wrote: > The following paragraph in etc/NEWS seems to be both badly worded, > in the wrong place, and perhaps only intended for the pretest. > In any case, please check it: > > * Systems that will not be supported in the future > configure will print a warning and exit for a set of systems that are > believed to not be in use anymore. The support has not been removed > yet, but configure will need to be edited in order to allow > compilation to proceed on such a system. If you are using such a > system, please send a message to emacs-devel@gnu.org in order to take > off the list of systems. Something like this? It should be up near the top (in "Installation Changes" or a separate section): "We plan to discontinue support for some older systems in Emacs 23.1. These systems are still supported in Emacs 22.2, but configure will not complete without manual intervention. If you encounter one of these systems, and believe it should continue to be supported, please make your voice known at emacs-devel@gnu.org."