[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:16:55 -0800 |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Something like this? It should be up near the top (in "Installation
> > Changes" or a separate section):
> >
> > "We plan to discontinue support for some older systems in Emacs 23.1.
> > These systems are still supported in Emacs 22.2, but configure will
> > not complete without manual intervention. If you encounter one of
> > these systems, and believe it should continue to be supported, please
> > make your voice known at address@hidden"
>
> It still find it confusing:
>
> If you need "manual intervention" (such as editing the configure
> script) to make Emacs 22 compile on a certain platform, then IMO
> the system is _not_ supported on Emacs 22.
>
> So speaking about "plan to discontinue support in 23.1" seems
> meaningless when Emacs 22 itself doesn't compile (out of the box) on
> that system.
>
>
> So either you discontinue those systems in 22.2, or you make Emacs 22.2
> compile on those systems.
>
> Breaking "configure" is effective - but IMO not the right place - to
> ask people to "make your voice known"...
>
> My suggestion is that configure simply prints the following blurb
> at the END of the configure output - so it is clearly visible
> to the target users:
>
> --------------- WARNING --------------------------------------
> SYSTEM-XXX is considered an potentially obsolete system by the
> Emacs development team, so Emacs 22.2 may be the last release
> to officially support it.
>
> Since you still use Emacs on such a system, and you want to
> continue using future Emacs versions on it, please make
> your voice known to the developers at address@hidden
> --------------------------------------------------------------
This is nitpicking...
The problem with warnings is that using
./configure && make
is quite common, so seeing the warning is almost impossible.
Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans - request for a slight delay., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/03/06