From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:21:35 +0000 Message-ID: <20080116212135.GB2171@muc.de> References: <20080116001356.GA3081@muc.de> <200801160547.m0G5laV0007175@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <44k5mai3yr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200517933 4618 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 21:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Katsumi Yamaoka , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 22:12:30 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 1JFFYJ-0007Dd-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:12:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFFXu-0000oD-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFFXq-0000n2-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFFXo-0000mL-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFFXo-0000mE-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1] helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFFXo-0004wk-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 27346 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Jan 2008 21:11:30 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p57AF5CEF.dip.t-dialin.net [87.175.92.239]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3241 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jan 2008 21:21:35 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44k5mai3yr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:86991 Archived-At: Hi, Glenn, 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. -- Alan.