From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:37:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkuxuw4z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d5le76w.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:15 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, yantar92@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:15 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > That's true, but we will have to at least say something about dropping
> > support for libc's that don't. Or something.
>
> Come 2037, the systems with unfixed libc's will automatically become
> obsolete. We won't have to do anything.
Emacs compiled with those obsolete libc versions can be moved to a
newer system, and will generally still continue working. So the
system can still be alive, but such an old-compiled Emacs on that
system will die. We will need at least to mention that somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-13 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-12 9:13 What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range? Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 9:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-12 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-12 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-12 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 0:30 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-13 9:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-13 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-13 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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