From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81185 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs version compatibility Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:43:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4ydms6b.fsf@gmx.de> References: <871uqey9t4.fsf@gnus.org> <87k445ptt5.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877h057ejp.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328179449 17309 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 10:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29466@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 02 11:44:08 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 1Rsu94-0000xb-7O for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:44:02 +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 1Rsu91-0004Ev-Ei; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:43:59 -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 1Rsu90-0004Ek-DM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:43:58 -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 1Rsu8w-00017x-2I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:43:58 -0600 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rsu8t-000542-OI for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:43:51 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Feb 2012 10:43:45 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB9489.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.148.137] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 02 Feb 2012 11:43:45 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/i6p4A9IrieqDwF/gleaA2qRLypfR3WzMInrj2rV A/ov+r+1d//kqH In-Reply-To: <877h057ejp.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:47:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81185 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > I'm proposing that (learning from the gnulib example), that we should > have a repository of compat functions that behave like you'd expect them > to behave. 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. 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 :-) Best regards, Michael.