From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412958624 27856 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 16:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 18:30:18 2014 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 1Xcd56-0007aD-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcd56-0000Gr-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccwq-0002lE-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccwp-00059m-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccwp-00059g-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccwo-0003LI-Lq; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:21:42 -0400 X-Spook: clones CipherTAC-2000 president industrial espionage SSL X-Ran: lr:uZvxlBYa=K5&9jx#~d8^;TnxUSdpL+`6jWZ*7jt2*6>lb1&%Btqq\/B{&::/~Adu#$i X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:18:04 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:175230 Archived-At: 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... ;)