Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

  > Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
  > 
  > > Something like this? It should be up near the top (in "Installation
  > > Changes" or a separate section):
  > >
  > > "We plan to discontinue support for some older systems in Emacs 23.1.
  > > These systems are still supported in Emacs 22.2, but configure will
  > > not complete without manual intervention.  If you encounter one of
  > > these systems, and believe it should continue to be supported, please
  > > make your voice known at emacs-devel@gnu.org."
  > 
  > It still find it confusing:
  > 
  > If you need "manual intervention" (such as editing the configure
  > script) to make Emacs 22 compile on a certain platform, then IMO
  > the system is _not_ supported on Emacs 22.
  > 
  > So speaking about "plan to discontinue support in 23.1" seems
  > meaningless when Emacs 22 itself doesn't compile (out of the box) on
  > that system.
  > 
  > 
  > So either you discontinue those systems in 22.2, or you make Emacs 22.2
  > compile on those systems.  
  > 
  > Breaking "configure" is effective - but IMO not the right place - to
  > ask people to "make your voice known"...
  > 
  > My suggestion is that configure simply prints the following blurb
  > at the END of the configure output - so it is clearly visible
  > to the target users:
  > 
  > --------------- WARNING --------------------------------------
  > SYSTEM-XXX is considered an potentially obsolete system by the
  > Emacs development team, so Emacs 22.2 may be the last release
  > to officially support it.
  > 
  > Since you still use Emacs on such a system, and you want to
  > continue using future Emacs versions on it, please make
  > your voice known to the developers at emacs-devel@gnu.org.
  > --------------------------------------------------------------

This is nitpicking...

The problem with warnings is that using

./configure && make 

is quite common, so seeing the warning is almost impossible.