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Re: supporting older versions of emacs


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:41:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, Jan 16 2008, Glenn Morris wrote:

> Reiner Steib wrote:
>> In Gnus, we don't support Emacs 20 any longer.  Occasionally removing
>> compatibility code can't be done because XEmacs 21.4 needs it, too.
>
> Out of interest, do you have any statistics for the fraction of people
> using Emacs 21

Even if we drop support for Emacs 21, the code still should be
compatible with XEmacs 21.4 (as it's the most recent stable version).

> together with bleeding-edge Gnus (eg from User-Agent stats in the
> Gnus mailing lists, or somesuch)?

I don't know the fraction, but a quick grep in my leafnode spool shows
that there _are_ such people ('User-Agent:.*No.Gnus.*[^X]Emacs/2[10]',
sorted + uniqued).

  User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix)
  User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)
  User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

... used by 14 persons.

Note that most of the lists (gmane.*) and usenet groups in my spool
are computer related.  In non-technical groups, ancient Emacs versions
are more common (though probably not combined with bleeding-edge
Gnus).

Bye, Reiner.
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