From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Ma Gnus v0.16 is released
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:07:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21t8omrlq.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twllgrtn.fsf@gnus.org>
on Sat Feb 06 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
> Manuel Carro <manuel.carro@imdea.org> writes:
>
>> While building emacs is quite easy these days, I am not sure I want to
>> build new versions of all the Emacs packages when I get a new version of
>> gnus. The possibility of new bugs increases a lot. Won't it be
>> possible to mirror just the gnus directory and build it outside the
>> emacs sources?
>
> No, Gnus will start depending on features only existing in the version
> of Emacs it's included with, and will have no compat code.
Three cheers for sustainable development practices and not dragging the
past around forever!
--
-Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-07 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-06 4:09 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-06 8:09 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2016-02-06 12:24 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-07 0:15 ` Manuel Carro
2016-02-07 2:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-07 16:07 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
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