From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus and No Gnus
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab0w1651.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mljkqauf6.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:15:41 +0900")
On Tue, Sep 08 2009, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Basically I'm positive to drop old Emacsen. It seems enough to
> support the latest major version and one predecessor.
I agree with this rule of thumb.
> Those who use Emacs 21 may perhaps not want to work on upgrading
> Gnus. But in another thought, we don't have so much difficulty in
> supporting Emacs 21 for the present. Therefore I think it's not
> time to drop Emacs 21.
Dropping support for Emacs 21 would - in many cases - also mean to
drop support for XEmacs 21.4, the latest stable XEmacs release. IIRC
there are plans to sync from Emacs after XEmacs switches to GPLv3.
Bye, Reiner.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-07 12:07 Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-07 21:31 ` Glenn Morris
[not found] ` <bnocpmzbka.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-09-08 2:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-08 4:46 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-09-15 8:10 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-08 7:11 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-15 8:13 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-15 13:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-09-08 5:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-08 7:19 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-08 11:13 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-08 16:49 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-08 19:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-09 9:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-09-15 8:14 ` Steinar Bang
2009-09-15 17:15 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
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