From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions? Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:54:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mvxtdjkn.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp2nkasy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439718855 6797 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2015 09:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 11:54:15 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 1ZQudq-0003eN-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:54:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQudp-0005uB-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 05:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQudm-0005u0-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 05:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQudl-0003I6-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 05:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]:36396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQudl-0003I2-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 05:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: by lagz9 with SMTP id z9so63895202lag.3 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:54:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=oth47V46W1w2GwYYTd8ZRlJdniJO0XUu2hJmAjrGQiw=; b=LY48jyU1InGh76CHcAX+TOaTzleH0o+SY1qxc+13hf1xYJZ9O6ClfmO4H+KikZiNVF dS/cwp2Krfgj56KY+aNpNhux9AoEi1iQpUSYZrgaZEkVW4xy4lPeaacv8TwDwuylfppk Lu8xAjslm81ZRgv8RDvctHYvoDTM2qRjRct2CJi8dUvfiWEzXMRe9pCEuRo4mMq9xDHs KgW5bhMELj2R2Pz0KVoJd/86fcQRUeBS+4aw4tI5MOKDDwmftJnHq5umvCxrYaD+WQvA 2aPdnhaAdQbLqngw/t2M3jSuSD7hIS5FGqCR0BlDCSJbptGF5e2oKRLq9xvwC0/hVWjR tR+Q== X-Received: by 10.112.67.65 with SMTP id l1mr40904027lbt.86.1439718848207; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.134.139 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:54:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pp2nkasy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> X-Google-Sender-Auth: w7F29RaMo4EYcWmPWFQT-2iFUJI X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f 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:188814 Archived-At: > Now, even if we did keep an Emacs 23 compatible Org around (most likely > being feature frozen and only getting critical bugfixes) we'd still have > to solve the problem that Emacs' package manager currently can't serve > different packages for different versions of Emacs. Emacs 23 didn't come with package.el, which means you're targetting people who have manually added package.el to their system. I think it's safe to assume that this group of people is capable of manually downloading and setting up your compatibility org version. Just make sure it's very visible and easy to find when searched for.