Re: Gnus registry and Emacs <= 23.1

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:25:42 +0200 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote: 

RS> On Wed, May 18 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I'd really like to avoid writing a hashtable serializer for the sake of
>> Emacs 23.1 and older users.  It's been missing since the
>> gnus-registry.el rewrite and no one has complained, so I doubt it's a
>> big population of people who want the latest Gnus yet can't upgrade
>> their Emacs.

RS> You seem to assume that everybody using Gnus is using the registry.

You're right, I should have said "who want to use the registry and ...".

RS> That statement "nobody is using released Emacs with latest Gnus" is
RS> not true.

But I didn't say that. I said "no one has complained" (this is still
true: you are not complaining either since you don't use the registry)
and that I doubt there are many who can't upgrade.

RS> Given the limited compatibility, I am glad that I didn't change my
RS> setup (e.g. `nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent') to use the registry
RS> years ago. :-(

I don't want to write a hashtable serializer for the sake of users who
haven't upgraded their Emacs to 23.2 (released in 2008) and haven't even
asked for the feature.  I don't have time to spend on features no one
needs.  But if you're one of those users and you are asking me to do it
because you want to use that feature, that changes things.  Are you
asking?

Ted