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: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions? Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:04:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mvxtdjkn.fsf@gnu.org> <87pp2nkasy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439787953 5703 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2015 05:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 05:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 17 07:05:43 2015 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 1ZRCcA-0008WS-AV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:05:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRCc9-0000ut-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRCbY-0000cF-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRCbX-0005e1-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRCbT-0005XN-31; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRCbS-0002uo-CG; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:04:58 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Artur Malabarba on Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:52:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:188830 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Emacs 23 didn't come with package.el, which means you're targetting > > > people who have manually added package.el to their system. > > > > Emacs packages such as Org mode existed and were distributed separately > > since long before ELPA. > Yes, I was specifically replying to a comment about installation via > the package manager. Indeed, it would not be straightforward to install the newest Org mode in Emacs 23 via the package manager. But they could install it from a release, the way they generally did in Emacs 23. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.