From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:18 -0500 Message-ID: <47myr5nzsl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20080116001356.GA3081@muc.de> <200801160547.m0G5laV0007175@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <44k5mai3yr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20080116212135.GB2171@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200524315 27540 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 22:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:58:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 23:58:50 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 1JFHDd-0006Ag-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:58:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFHDE-0006e7-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFHDA-0006di-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFHD9-0006dU-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFHD9-0006dR-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFHD8-0001d1-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JFHD8-0006Jv-Gc; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:58:18 -0500 X-Spook: counter terrorism Albania espionage electronic X-Ran: ;DFJZWzb%IWD3SKi3jsx;=>_#R.$1k-DbwD'CtD#]!L,[;N(mhqp4t:}Mb$XfGSGPS~V*j X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:86998 Archived-At: Reiner Steib wrote: > 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. Out of interest, do you have any statistics for the fraction of people using Emacs 21 together with bleeding-edge Gnus (eg from User-Agent stats in the Gnus mailing lists, or somesuch)?