From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ? Date: 16 Apr 2004 04:08:43 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <871xmp136a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082081544 15105 80.91.224.253 (16 Apr 2004 02:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 04:12:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEIq1-0007l6-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:12:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEIq1-0005Xx-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:12:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEInP-0008A2-BW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEIn3-00089I-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:09:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEImW-0007x8-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEImW-0007wb-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BEIly-0006Jz-Vf; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:08:07 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 19 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21727 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21727 Miles Bader writes: > Juri Linkov writes: > > I must say that having news for old releases in one file is very > > inconvenient. > > I agree, I've often been annoyed by this. It's a bit hard to say what's > better though -- it really depends on the version the user is upgrading > from, and we can't know that! Well, customize-variable could also record the two last Emacs minor and major Emacs versions valid on each change, and then the NEWS file gets narrowed accordingly by C-h n. Never say "we can't". The question is rather whether it is worth the trouble. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum