From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.2.93 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:10:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3yehgsms6k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fw15ecac.fsf@moo.wxcvbn.org> <87y5exdwuc.fsf@moo.wxcvbn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360462241 26537 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2013 02:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 03:11:02 2013 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 1U4MNf-0001x8-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:10:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4MNM-0000t9-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:10:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4MNK-0000ri-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:10:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4MNJ-0005tw-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:4231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4MNI-0005ts-TC; Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:10:36 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZnt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZnt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAsOJhIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="889401" Original-Received: from 69-165-153-237.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.153.237]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Feb 2013 21:10:36 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 157FE5919F; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 21:10:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:22:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:156937 Archived-At: >> Not really a problem with pretests, but with actual releases. OpenBSD >> still supports vax, but xz doesn't build there, so .xz (only) tarballs >> would make Emacs harder to build. On the other hand, last time >> I checked, Emacs 24.2 didn't build on OpenBSD/vax, but who knows... :) > AFAIK Emacs dropped vax support ages ago. Actually, we dropped VMS support, but I don't see any reason why BSD on VAX couldn't be made to work, Stefan