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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jvmw936gkp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:18:04 -0700")

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Yes.  The general guideline in GNU packages is that when a platform's
> supplier no longer supports the platform, the GNU package doesn't need
> to support it either.  This is a reasonable guideline for Emacs too,
> e.g., our recent dropping support for IRIX 6.5 after SGI stopped
> support.  Since Apple has also dropped support for OS X 10.5 and 10.6,
> we should probably drop support for these versions as well.

Hah, oh man, good luck trying to get Emacs to drop Windows 9x etc... ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-10 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-10 15:59 Drop OS X 10.4 Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 16:21   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-10-10 16:31     ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 17:13   ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 17:57     ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-10-11  7:24       ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-11  9:20         ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 12:59   ` Juergen Fenn
2014-10-11 17:30     ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 18:25       ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12  8:37         ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 15:02           ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-12 16:06             ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 18:27           ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 23:10             ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-13  5:01               ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13  5:04             ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13 16:48               ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-14  5:08                 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-14 17:11                   ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-14 17:26                     ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 17:42                       ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 16:28 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-19  9:04 ` Ivan Kanis

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