From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org policy Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:31:53 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87k4kebiox.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbfimpp1.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> <87fwv2bf7h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aalaz6ey.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87y68ujkjl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289914340 11067 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2010 13:32:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:32:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 14:32:16 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PILdu-0003Z5-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:32:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PILdu-0005sO-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58181 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PILdp-0005sE-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PILdm-0004oz-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PILdm-0004ok-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PILdk-0003UG-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:32:04 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:32:04 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:32:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAD1BMVEX4zjp1NxbfiifqoSzN byOhdRP2AAACUUlEQVQ4jUWUjWHrIAyE1eABgs0ADmIAghiAH+0/0zuB++qkccpn6aQThLwPGjUl Dao6dHa7c1U6csikSlTaOzUhqk2O2x2EVSFXbKEcrVI+7nHkcuBhbSRC0kNISFV0RGWnpF2nZBHc /18jJgNhihTtviesBbzGA5TJjaI+SIn7eV5Ah1CJ1e7CCIKQ3QBYXLEsKnol9cg1F0DGHjfwrQ5o ph0x0aoYGBldjvUNgQAmN/BvvA1AvwMEaKT13uAVLWuMG3gorirJufQAq0q9XwEGSozVPw0i5woQ AJKIp/vYETaRESN8iQN/xbIagEkAbOv1xIdgXI9GQCexoJdywYT65TRMIyGAufQYPv4NFfnOb0zJ AOxiqZD0jabLTpxYBPKdUKgo2p8ySzMQETE0GPh6XI2IOCeHGmiNZpYNsDXoKj/Wj01Q+XzA66Z6 Q4WcLBN5Vh0GPDaGszBaoE9G4x8Dob+dq/CmLA2FGMsKQSvIbzswPM4K23L3V3/VPzDQelxlueYg jMEsAG/nA+xy69PHFB5wps9alw1gPsbAJaHYcVulT8SJkbnCtUP6wjmhSRtcrOoEIHg/PpIpPxEX PBYXUzfx74nm8gIBYDAm0HeD89V4gXTJUk+6yZS2I+qF0zSwm3RHBLc9pGrnqXzs8eX8WVYvGWdG XLZafcALIK0Iocgo7zVs181keEXAYZwKDKx4WGPnyYclDXft+MOeHtq4A8BFj5GBMxB/gvWFjbwB vgc0R5jSAukXmMxNjB8QbCkAl6r+gRdT+fHZQEzin/V/N4Gl3gh5z60AAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: 23 Skidoo's _Urban Gamelan_: "Jalan Jalan" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/RvFl/v9h7WI34qUhjKXK6kYyUE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132702 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Maybe try offering people the choice between the current situation; > and one in which you only support the latest Emacs, and have twice as > much time to develop new stuff... Yeah... well, back in the 90s, it made sense to support all the different Emacs versions, because the development direction of the main Emacs was so, er, interesting. Ahem. So there really were reasons for people not to just use the latest Emacs. But I don't really see that as much of an issue any more... > (I'm glad Gnus finally dropped Emacs 21, at least.) Me too. I wish it was possible to just write towards Emacs 24 and pretend that nothing else existed, but just providing compat functions for older/different Emacs versions, but then you'd have competing compat functions for, well, everything. So it's not doable. *sigh* -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen