From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51975 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Oort doesn't really support XEmacs 21.1 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:22:50 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051658598 12065 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 23:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M518@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 30 01:23:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AeQa-00033T-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:22:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19AeRC-0004Tk-00; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19AeR4-0004Te-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:22:55 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 35690 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2003 23:22:54 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 35685 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 23:22:54 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2003 23:22:54 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3TNMobT031850 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:22:51 +0200 Original-To: Gnus List Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030429:ding@gnus.org:15a4ebd879a494d5 X-Hashcash: 0:030429:ding@gnus.org:15a4ebd879a494d5 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51975 Steve Youngs writes: > `open-network-stream' - "PROTOCOL" arg doesn't exist Emacs doesn't have PROTOCOL either. Where is it used (without a fallback)? > `completing-read' - "DEFAULT" arg doesn't exist There is gnus-completing-read, perhaps it can be used? > Do you want me to fix those for 5.10? I vote yes. > There is also `string-to-multibyte' which doesn't exist on XEmacs > 21.1, I could just defalias that to `ignore'. It doesn't exist under Emacs 20 either. Where is it used (unconditionally)? > I suppose all of this raises the question: "Do we continue to support > XEmacs 21.1 seeing as though it has been retired as the stable > branch?". I vote yes. The manual still claim to support XEmacs 20.4, dropping two major versions at the same time seems excessive.