From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: removing support for old platforms Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:42 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <87ejctthwj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4782A0C1.6010203@gmail.com> <878x308yuc.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199878759 3170 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2008 11:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, stephen@xemacs.org, 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 Wed Jan 09 12:39:39 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 1JCZHW-0003bs-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:39:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCZGy-0002vG-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCZFs-0002OZ-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCZFn-0002Kw-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCZFn-0002Kr-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCZFm-0005Oy-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JCZFe-0001mX-3B; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <878x308yuc.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (storm@cua.dk) 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:86638 Archived-At: Well, it would be a good joke to read something like * Emacs is now prepared to run on the following machines and systems, which are expected to be available in some distant future: ... Yes that would be funny. But I think "distant past" is what fits the convention of Antinews better. The convention is not that we call the past the future. Rather, we call it the past, but we talk about it in the ways normally used for talking about the future. The full list of discontinued platforms is not necessary for the joke and would just be dull. Maybe we could mention two or three. Or maybe the joke doesn't need any specific names: * Emacs 21 supports many additional systems and computers that will be available in the distant past.