From: peder@news.klingenberg.no (Peder O. Klingenberg)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:14:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ks4mtm8gt7.fsf@netfonds.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9xnqfdl.fsf@violet.siamics.net
On Tue, Nov 25 2014 at 18:55, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Yes, although I’d rather question the necessity of building
> Emacs ‘master’ on an LTS GNU/Linux system. If the intent is to
> use the last decade’s versions of Libc and Coreutils, – why
> Emacs has to be newer than that?
Because features. My desktop machine runs Kubuntu 10.04 still, because
it mostly does what I need without needing my attention all the time, it
is a stable platform I can use to get work done.
There is no conscious desire to run old software for nostalgias sake,
more a lack of desire to upgrade willy-nilly with the associated
breakage-fixing and retraining of muscle memory because some dimwits
decided to reinvent everything badly.
I do most of my work in Emacs. That means I care about it more than I
care about this months desktop fad, the latest and greatest in init
systems, or whatever fancy gui+daemon should be used to dynamically
configure the network on my perfectly stationary, hardwired desktop
machine.
I started building emacs from trunk because the repository version had
features I wanted. Mostly --daemon, which is a killer feature and a
real productivity boost for me, and which was not available in the
distro-packaged emacs. I was willing to invest the time and effort
involved to get a better emacs, but I was, and am, reluctant to upgrade
the bits of the machine that work just fine.
> Especially given that the older versions of the system, when
> necessary to support legacy software, could be just as well be
> run in chroot(2) environments. (Or even be entirely “virtual.”)
It's not about legacy software. It's about how I choose to spend my
limited time. Playing sysadmin was really exciting back when I
installed slackware from a stack of floppies. These days, time spent
maintaining the OS is time not spent doing what they pay me to do, and
what I enjoy doing - develop software.
...Peder...
--
I wish a new life awaited _me_ in some off-world colony.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 18:38 Build failure (master; MS-Windows) Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 21:41 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 22:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 22:52 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-23 22:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 23:09 ` Dani Moncayo
2014-11-25 9:32 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) (was: Build failure (master; MS-Windows)) Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 15:57 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 16:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 16:38 ` Buildbot for Emacs? (was: proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable)) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 16:50 ` Buildbot for Emacs? Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 16:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-25 22:15 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 23:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 9:52 ` Tom
2014-11-25 17:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 22:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-25 17:34 ` proposal: require GnuTLS 3.1.x (previous stable) Stefan Monnier
2014-11-25 18:55 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-26 9:14 ` Peder O. Klingenberg [this message]
2014-11-26 12:57 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-26 13:47 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2014-11-26 13:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 14:12 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2014-11-26 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-26 16:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 21:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-26 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-27 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-27 2:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 18:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-28 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-29 20:02 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-26 13:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
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