From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86765 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Ma Gnus v0.16 is released Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:07:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87zivejxkk.fsf@gnus.org> <871t8pfk9r.fsf@imdea.org> <87twllgrtn.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454861454 11076 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2016 16:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:10:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34990@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 07 17:10:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRv5-00043p-UP for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRv2-000103-H4; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:10:36 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRv0-0000zd-PK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:10:34 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRuz-0006u3-Ab for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:10:34 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRua-0003yg-0k for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRuV-0003O2-3m for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([98.207.179.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8TumQsQpWOmlfrDeoHOQk868Xvc= X-Spam-Score: -3.1 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86765 Archived-At: on Sat Feb 06 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Manuel Carro 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