From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Increase minimum required GTK versions? Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h8b9tz84.fsf@gmail.com> <83h8b98wg3.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0lxty7f.fsf@gmail.com> <537036b7-549c-0aab-cc06-70c26c683ac7@cs.ucla.edu> <87y34kiloy.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="235385"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alex Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 08 18:15:29 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hDWvf-000z5y-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDWve-0006xm-QM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDWvV-0006wH-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDWvU-0006SI-Vr; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hDWvQ-0000NU-7c; Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:15:12 -0400 X-Spook: insurgency Somolia Nazi LABLINK Chemical weapon X-Ran: .J6>XsWW:G$AV$-X7-yx7]98Y5:K>{}LFo2_",8*;OHPBORCLk6rsy-L#OwiIxi( X-Hue: brightblack X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87y34kiloy.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex's message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:03:09 -0600") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235120 Archived-At: Alex wrote: > Do we really have to consider RHEL 5, considering that it's on "Extended > Life Cycle Support"[1]? If someone is paying extra for post-Production > support for a "retired"[1] enterprise distro from 2007, then I doubt > that they or their users will be running the latest Emacs, especially a > GTK build instead of terminal-only or another toolkit such as Lucid. I'm a long-term RHEL user, and I completely agree that there is no need for Emacs 27 to worry about supporting RHEL5 (at all, never mind for GTK). (IIRC, RHEL5 shipped with Emacs 21.) (Since RHEL7 was released 5 years ago, I also have no problem with dropping RHEL6 support in Emacs 27 if it makes maintenance significantly easier.)