From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EMACS=t Joy and Happiness Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 16:52:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tvqw4w8s.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527195078 29542 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2018 20:51:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 20:51:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 20202@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert , 20484@debbugs.gnu.org, Emacs-Devel devel To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 22:51:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLxCb-0007ZG-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 22:51:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLxEi-0007u4-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLxEZ-0007tn-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLxEV-0000DG-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:58131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLxEV-0000Co-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w4OKrIRw001163; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B2AE768311; Thu, 24 May 2018 16:52:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87tvqw4w8s.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 24 May 2018 21:46:59 +0100") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6293=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6293> : inlines <6657> : streams <1787695> : uri <2646659> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225680 Archived-At: > I worry that "Bash 4.4 or later is common" is rather indeterminate; my At least Debian's stable (stretch) is on bash-4.4 (but still at 4.3 in oldstable (jessie)). > desktop is now 4.4.19. but another machine I am using has bash > 4.2.46. Given that Emacs-26 is now destined to come out with > EMACS=26.1.0, I would like to propose that we now remove this on master, > i.e. make it happen for Emacs-27 which should be in about 2020. Sounds good to me: by the time Emacs-27 comes out, Debian's oldstable will be stretch (hence at 4.4). Stefan