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Re: supporting older versions of emacs


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: supporting older versions of emacs
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, Jan 16 2008, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:12:28AM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
>> > It's obviously your choice, but is it worth it to still support
>> > emacs-20? 
>
>> rms has previously said (off-list) on this subject:
>
>> "Please let's not clutter our sources with support for such old
>> versions."
>
> Well, CC Mode contains very little such clutter - most of what is there
> is there for compatibility with XEmacs.

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.

Bye, Reiner.
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