From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59420 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Supported (X)Emacs version (was: CVS update of gnus/lisp (7 files)) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:49:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4nr7lu82ln.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102983138 31445 80.91.229.6 (14 Dec 2004 00:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7960@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 14 01:12:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ce0IW-0004oi-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ce0AY-0005SS-00; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:03:58 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ce07H-0005Rs-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:00:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ce07B-0001x5-PI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:00:29 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ce07A-0003Oa-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:00:28 +0100 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ce07A-0000hN-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:00:28 +0100 Original-Received: from dialin-212-144-131-120.arcor-ip.net ([212.144.131.120]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:00:28 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by dialin-212-144-131-120.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:00:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-212-144-131-120.arcor-ip.net X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY;Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m,tWj]&},qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi,+g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NBf9gGsc0awkBMJE+68D8Tzznl0= Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59420 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59420 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/