From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81186 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs version compatibility Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87boph33v2.fsf@gnus.org> References: <871uqey9t4.fsf@gnus.org> <87k445ptt5.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877h057ejp.fsf@gnus.org> <87r4ydms6b.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328179913 21043 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 10:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29467@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 02 11:51:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGc-0004Gq-TG for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGX-0004Ir-Dc; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:51:45 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGW-0004Ig-29 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:51:44 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGU-00019F-Po for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:51:43 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGS-0005FP-HM for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 93-41-188-50.ip82.fastwebnet.it ([93.41.188.50] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsuGJ-0001Ue-4L; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87r4ydms6b.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:43:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1RsuGJ-0001Ue-4L MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1328784691.89903@XZq0Cacnq/a861WUOJ8uFA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81186 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > That would be a way to go. However, that compat library shall support > older Emacsen as well as XEmacs. Could be put in the ELPA repository, > and shall be added to release tarballs. Amd shall be synced with XEmacs' > fsf-compat, somehow. Sounds good. :-) But I was thinking that (as with gnulib), projects would just copy stuff from the compat library at will as they need it, instead of having to include the entire shebang. And they'd include different bits of it, according to what Emacs versions they attempt supporting. > Which older Emacsen do you want to support? You have just dropped Emacs > 22 support, Tramp is a little bit more friendly (it has dropped Emacs 21 > support recently) > > I would be willing to contribute to such repository. Tramp has stolen so > much code from Gnus, it's time to pay back :-) :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Sent from my Rome