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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:02:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8g5KFO-SQFmLk3a+yJQoBL4Cj2AY4CkMCr7pH6TRNYMmB0_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50da4282-fb9c-6de8-b054-73038a8ea338@cs.ucla.edu>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Do you think it's worth supporting pre-23 emacs?
>
>
> Ha! We just had a thread discussing this, where I wrote:
>
>> currently I would say that Emacs 23.1 is the oldest Emacs we currently
>> need to worry about
>
> For details as to why, please see:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00500.html

Thanks.
Good to know the automake fix will be small.

However, bear in mind that once that May change makes it into an emacs
release, automake-generated Makefile.in files will be broken in that
respect.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-23  4:41 automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file Jim Meyering
2017-11-23  4:56 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-23  5:02   ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2017-11-23  6:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 16:13       ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-23 16:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27  1:17           ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-27 16:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-29  3:35               ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-29  6:44                 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-29 18:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-30  2:28                   ` Jim Meyering
2017-12-02 11:32                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-02 11:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-02 11:57                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-17  0:34                   ` Jim Meyering
2017-12-17 15:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-04  3:18                 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-04  3:41                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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