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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292190 Archived-At: andr=C3=A9s ram=C3=ADrez writes: > JIC. If You want to try emacs-20 right now. You try in on netbsd. netbsd > guys still compile and have a packaged emacs-20. > > If You want to try emacs-23. Ulrich and the gentoo guys have a heavily > patched emacs-23 version still compiling on latest gentoo. And they also > have an emacs18 still compiling too. How about installing such patches on the release branches, so that it is easy to build them on recent machines? It might even indirectly help with bisecting really old bugs by giving an idea of which patches might be needed to get various versions to build.