From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16007: admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:04:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83iou3zo1o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zjnfwzc1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388592373 10149 80.91.229.3 (1 Jan 2014 16:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 16:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16007@debbugs.gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 01 17:06:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJG-0004FX-7F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:06:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJF-0001Zq-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJ6-0001ZY-Sx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJ1-0007i1-1t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:06:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJ0-0007hx-Tv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOJ0-0008IH-EE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:06:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16007 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16007-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16007.138859231331813 (code B ref 16007); Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16007) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jan 2014 16:05:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56208 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOIC-0008H3-L8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38936) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VyOI9-0008Gt-AD for 16007@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYQ00M00CKYE300@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 16007@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:04:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYQ00LCWCNBVN70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:04:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87zjnfwzc1.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:82801 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Cc: 16007@debbugs.gnu.org, handa@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:28:46 +0900 > > If you think that keeping *.el that doesn't run in the > latest Emacs is a bad thing, perhaps the better way to keep > the information I wrote above is not by the Lisp file but by > a document which may contain the code in mule-charset.el > (the original one) as just a reference. > > If you agree, I'll delete mule-charset.el and add proper > information to admin/charsets/mapfiles/README. I'm not sure we can distribute generated files without the programs that generated them. And even if we could, deleting a file because we don't want to maintain it sounds too drastic to me. Why is it a problem to make changes in mule-charsets.el so that it could work both with Emacs 22 and with the latest versions of Emacs? What do we lose if we make such a change in mule-charsets.el?