From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69010 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and No Gnus Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87ab0w1651.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253034953 20696 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 17:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:15:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 19:15:46 2009 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 4.50) id 1Mnbd2-0004U8-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mnbd1-0004Iw-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mnbcv-0004IV-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mnbcr-0004I3-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44503 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mnbcr-0004I0-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]:50046) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mnbcq-0004Nq-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8FHFRKi026308; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:27 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4C31CE82; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:15:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:15:41 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-CTc-dcc2-Metrics: poseidon 1031; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115361 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69010 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/