[Ada-mode-users] abandon emacs 24.x?

[Stephen Leake]

The current ada-moe development head fails with emacs 24.x, because
ada-mode now uses cl-defgeneric (for dispatching to the elisp or process
parser), which is only available in emacs >= 25.
There is a GNU ELPA package that provides a simplified form of
cl-defgeneric (using eieio), but that doesn't work for the way ada-mode
uses it.

So, we have two options:

- drop support for 24.x

- rewrite ada-mode parser dispatch to not use cl-defgeneric; (use ad-hoc
  as the rest of ada-mode does, or use eieio).

Current Debian stable has emacs 24.5.

In addition, the parser implemented in Ada requires at least GNAT GPL
2017.

Any objections to dropping emacs 24.x?

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-- Stephe