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Re: Further CC-mode changes
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Further CC-mode changes |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:31:34 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
>> Two separate surveys of large (>100) corporate Emacsen populations
>> taken in 2003 and 2007 showed that around 10% of users were using
>> 10-year-old or older Emacsen.
I knew this by now very tired old statement would get trotted out. :)
Obviously it doesn't matter what I think, and I don't expect it to
change anyone's opinion, but based on Stephen's response I'll stop
beating around the bush.
The point was made 6 years ago, and things certainly have not improved
since then:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html
But at this point, if you're using XEmacs you're actively damaging
not only your long-term productivity, but mine as well.
Maintaining compat code for ancient Emacs versions is a waste of
effort, and in fact makes things worse for people using modern Emacs.
https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs 4500 commits in the last year
https://www.openhub.net/p/xemacs 48 commits in the last year
Extend the sample to 5 years if you like, same result.
Throw in SXEmacs too if you like, that had 35 commits last year.
Yes, counting commits is a silly metric, but the result is the same by
any metric. Bug reports closed in the last year? ~ 0 (?) versus 1000s.
New features have been added in the last year (5 years)?
I-don't-know versus see the 4000-line NEWS file.
- Sync'ing cc-mode, (continued)
- Sync'ing cc-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Glenn Morris, 2014/09/15
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/09/15
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, David Kastrup, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/09/16
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, David Kastrup, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes,
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, David Kastrup, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, David Kastrup, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Glenn Morris, 2014/09/17
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/09/18
- Re: Further CC-mode changes, Emilio Lopes, 2014/09/18