From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:08:41 +0200 Message-ID: <8BBA848D-F715-4284-AC3B-DFC96B103D57@swipnet.se> References: <543806BC.9050300@cs.ucla.edu> <43EC184F-DCCC-4A62-986E-00EF144981B4@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413263360 31463 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2014 05:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 07:09:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XduME-0007Um-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XduME-0004mD-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XduLy-0004lz-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XduLp-0001pG-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailfe01.swip.net ([212.247.154.1]:33512 helo=swip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XduLp-0001og-BJ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:08:49 -0400 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 Original-Received: from hosdjarv.se (account mj138573@tele2.se [46.59.42.57] verified) by mailfe01.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.4) with ESMTPA id 536946982; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:08:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.247.154.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175339 Archived-At: Hello. 13 okt 2014 kl. 18:48 skrev Glenn Morris : > Jan Dj=E4rv wrote: >=20 >> I don't think so. After all, if you are building for X or no toolkit, >> it is basically just UNIX with an unexec that works on Intel. I don't >> think that we should prevent configurations that we in principle >> support (X, no-X, unexmacosx.c). A check for PowerPC might be in = order >> though as we don't support that. >>=20 >> I could add that, but I don't have any PowerPC to test it on. >=20 > Oh, but all the other points still apply: >=20 > OS X 10.4 itself is unsupported for 5+ years. > No Emacs developer has it to test on. > All the bug reports about it come from one person (who seems to be = doing > an "explore the compilation parameter space" thing rather than = actually > wanting to use it). > All the bug reports are about PPC; > = http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=3Dsubject%3A10.4;package=3D= emacs > (whether this means it is working fine on non-ppc, I have no data for! = :) ) >=20 > So personally I see no value to pretending it is still supported, and > think it might as well be explicitly dropped. >=20 I have to do some other test, because the test relies on Cocoa dev = environment being present. Stand by. >> A check for PowerPC might be in order though as we don't support = that. >=20 > Should be easy? >=20 > *** configure.ac 2014-10-12 22:56:45 +0000 > --- configure.ac 2014-10-13 16:47:29 +0000 > *************** > *** 557,563 **** > *-apple-darwin* ) > case "${canonical}" in > i[3456]86-* ) ;; > ! powerpc-* ) ;; > x86_64-* ) ;; > * ) unported=3Dyes ;; > esac > --- 557,563 ---- > *-apple-darwin* ) > case "${canonical}" in > i[3456]86-* ) ;; > ! powerpc-* ) unported=3Dyes ;; > x86_64-* ) ;; > * ) unported=3Dyes ;; > esac Thanks, I checked that in. Jan D.