Re: September Gnus 0.13 is released

[gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark)]

>   I just find it a lot easier to write code when I don't have to wrap
>   everything in `(and (fboundp))'.  When I write ugly code I get
>   depressed.  So I write less code.  Being able to say "`(list ,my)"
>   instead of "(` (list (, my)))" is a great relief.  :-)
>
>   So, like, 19.28 people can get by with 5.0.12.  It's a working Gnus.
>   September Gnus is alpha, and has quite a lot of neat stuff in it, but
>   there's nothing really Earth-shattering about it.

I'ld like to point out that it's not just 19.28 support you're dropping,
if compiled under 19.28 it works find under at least 19.25 -- 19.29.

Here some machines run 19.25, some 19.28 and some 19.29, and I've been able to
support all of these by building sgnus and gnus 5 under Emacs 19.28. 

There's really no excuse for using `(foo) in code that isn't part of Emacs
itself.  The support for the syntax was intented largely for compatibility
with code written for XEmacs or for Common Lisp code.  Writing new code using
it is just pointlessly writing unportable code.

If anything it makes _more_ sense for September Gnus to be written portably
than Gnus 5 since Gnus 5 is packaged with Emacs and September Gnus is only
usable as a separate package.  

greg