Oort doesn't really support XEmacs 21.1

[Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org>]

Hi Folks (Lars in particular),

I just patched dgnushack.el so Gnus can be built with XEmacs 21.1 [1]
and in the process discovered a few functions that are being called
incorrectly (wrong number of args).

The functions in question are:

`open-network-stream' - "PROTOCOL" arg doesn't exist
`read-string'         - "DEFAULT-VALUE" arg doesn't exist
`completing-read'     - "DEFAULT" arg doesn't exist

Do you want me to fix those for 5.10?

There is also `string-to-multibyte' which doesn't exist on XEmacs
21.1, I could just defalias that to `ignore'.  And there is a whole
stack of...

"Variable reference to constant :prefix"

being spewed out from 'nnmaildir.el'.  What can I do about those?

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?".

[Replaces Gnus hat with XEmacs hat]
Our "quasi-official" word is that we will continue to support XEmacs
21.1 for a short period (6-12 months).  After that, support will
progressively decrease until non-existent.

We have committed to supporting XEmacs 21.1 for the packages we
distribute for at least 6 months (in reality it will probably be 12
months). 

Even now, most support requests from 21.1 users will be met with a
recommendation to upgrade to current stable branch (21.4), as any bugs
found in 21.1 are not likely to be fixed.
[Puts Gnus hat back on]

So there you go.

Footnotes: 
[1]  The new command line options used when building with XEmacs
     uncovered a couple of problems.

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