From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080116001356.GA3081@muc.de> <200801160547.m0G5laV0007175@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <44k5mai3yr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20080116212135.GB2171@muc.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200522642 21868 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 22:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 23:30:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFGmW-0003kR-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:30:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFGm8-000384-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFGm5-00037r-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFGm3-00036T-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFGm3-00036N-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFGm3-0004Hd-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0GMUElo007579; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:30:14 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E68F12DF8; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:30:14 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86996 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 16 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:12:28AM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote: >> Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > >> > It's obviously your choice, but is it worth it to still support >> > emacs-20? > >> rms has previously said (off-list) on this subject: > >> "Please let's not clutter our sources with support for such old >> versions." > > Well, CC Mode contains very little such clutter - most of what is there > is there for compatibility with XEmacs. In Gnus, we don't support Emacs 20 any longer. Occasionally removing compatibility code can't be done because XEmacs 21.4 needs it, too. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/