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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:55:04 +0100
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To: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
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Hi Richard,

Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Great, so should Org-mode require cl-lib and stop supporting the
>>> following functions?
>>
>> I guess so.  But I'm unclear yet whether this removes compatibility
>> with older Emacsen.  I'll check this.
>
> I believe it does remove compatibility with anything pre-24.0.  At
> least, there is no cl-lib in GNU Emacs 23.4.1, which is the version
> currently in Debian stable.

Any reason why Debian developers are not using 24.3 as the stable
version of Emacs?  It has been out for now one year.

Otherwise yes, let's try to stay as much backward-compatible as
possible.

-- 
 Bastien