From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: removing support for old platforms Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:01:00 +0900 Message-ID: <87ejctthwj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <200801050843.m058heaw011436@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801061746.m06HkMPm017937@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801062044.m06KiFbY023559@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <87ejct90rl.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199742986 15290 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 21:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 22:56:47 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 1JBzxd-0000Qe-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzxG-0006A6-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzxC-00069d-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzxB-00067o-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBzxA-00067T-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBzx7-0001MZ-1h; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:56:13 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249F58001; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:56:12 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0327B1A29E5; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:01:01 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ejct90rl.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid 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:86523 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > Should we perhaps announce in NEWS the fact that these old > > > configurations are no longer supported? > > > > IMHO, that would just add unnecessary bloat to NEWS. But feel free to do > > it if you want to... > > Maybe it doesn't need to be specific, ie. it could just say > > * Many pre-historic machines and systems are no longer supported. > > (you may choose another term than pre-historic of course). More important, the list should be preserved somewhere, and a pointer to that list inserted here.