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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9tzldieuj.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116212135.GB2171@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed,  16 Jan 2008 21:21:35 +0000")

On Wed, Jan 16 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:12:28AM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
>> > It's obviously your choice, but is it worth it to still support
>> > emacs-20? 
>
>> rms has previously said (off-list) on this subject:
>
>> "Please let's not clutter our sources with support for such old
>> versions."
>
> Well, CC Mode contains very little such clutter - most of what is there
> is there for compatibility with XEmacs.

In Gnus, we don't support Emacs 20 any longer.  Occasionally removing
compatibility code can't be done because XEmacs 21.4 needs it, too.

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1JEXu8-0004C3-Cy@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
2008-01-15  0:03 ` bootstrap fails Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-01-16  0:13   ` bootstrap fails AND how about fixing the byte-compiler? Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-16  0:58     ` Miles Bader
2008-01-16  2:15     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-01-16  5:47     ` supporting older versions of emacs (was: Re: bootstrap fails AND how about fixing the byte-compiler?) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-16  8:12       ` supporting older versions of emacs Glenn Morris
2008-01-16 21:21         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-16 22:29           ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-01-16 22:58             ` Glenn Morris
2008-01-16 23:41               ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-16 21:31       ` supporting older versions of emacs (was: Re: bootstrap fails AND how about fixing the byte-compiler?) Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-16 23:40         ` Dan Nicolaescu

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