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: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ? Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:17:14 +0900 Message-ID: <87skijidlh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87k53wh16c.wl%xma@gnu.org> <20090601144320.69e6b4cb@homer.maillard.im> <87prdorqf1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243908822 22479 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2009 02:13:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 04:13:39 2009 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 1MBJVR-0002v8-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBJVQ-0004Ff-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBJVK-0004F2-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBJVG-0004EV-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46334 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBJVG-0004ES-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:51423) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBJVD-0008Ca-SR; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB631537B6; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:13:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6452D1A2645; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:17:14 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87prdorqf1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:111278 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > I hope 19.29 is just an arbitrarily-chosen example -- 19.29 was released > 14 years ago! Unless you really have users using older versions, there > seems little reason to go to great lengths to support them. A recent (October 2008) survey of a famous 4-letter financial firm showed that about 5% of the >200 developers who responded were using Emacs 19 variants (including Lucid Emacs 19.6 and Emacs 19.8 IIRC), and there were more than 1% using Emacs 18. I think it's quite possible that he has such users.