Supported (X)Emacs version (was: CVS update of gnus/lisp (7 files))

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Dec 13 2004, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, snogglethorpe@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> Is there a policy that the Gnus trunk doesn't support old versions
>> of Emacs?
>
> I think the general policy is to code for the latest official Emacs.
> Backwards compatibility is nice but not imperative.  This is just my
> understanding, though.

The official policy is written in (info "(gnus)Emacsen"):

,----[ (info "(gnus)Emacsen") ]
| Gnus should work on:
| 
|    * Emacs 21.1 and up.
| 
|    * XEmacs 21.4 and up.
| 
|    This Gnus version will absolutely not work on any Emacsen older than
| that.  Not reliably, at least.  Older versions of Gnus may work on older
| Emacs versions.
`----

For the Gnus 5.10 series (and thus the v5-10 branch) it's Emacs 20.7
and XEmacs 21.1.  When starting No Gnus, everyone on this list agreed
that we should drop support for Emacs 20 and XEmacs 21.1 because
supporting those outdated versions makes the code less readable and
harder to maintain (IIRC).

Bye, Reiner.
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