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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs
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Ikumi Keita |
Subject: |
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:17:10 +0900 |
Hi Tassilo and all,
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Then we could have 11.91.x releases with just compat fixes for
>>> XEmacs/old Emacsen but no new features, and with version 12+ we could
>>> start caring about compatibility only for the last few Emacs
>>> releases.
>>
>> Do you mean that the branch would be for fixes only, so that in master
>> we can completely remove hundreds of lines of compatibility code? If
>> so, I'm all for this option.
> Yes, exactly.
For the sake of fairness, I leave here a record of a benefit obtained
from trying to keep support for xemacs. The dicovery of the series of
bugs I reported about font-latex.el[1] were triggered by the warnings of
byte compilation in xemacs. Since GNU emacs doesn't warn about those
code, the bugs were left unnoticed for a fairly long period if I didn't
test with xemacs. In this sense, it is not bad to have two different
byte-compile optimizer at our hands.
Having said that, I also agree that such benefit is too small compared
to the burden of maintaining support for xemacs.
Regards,
Ikumi Keita
[1]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2017-02/msg00029.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2017-02/msg00030.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2017-02/msg00031.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2017-02/msg00032.html
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- [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Ikumi Keita, 2017/02/19
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/19
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/19
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Tassilo Horn, 2017/02/22
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/22
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Tassilo Horn, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs,
Ikumi Keita <=
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Tassilo Horn, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Arash Esbati, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Ikumi Keita, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Mosè Giordano, 2017/02/23
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] support for xemacs, Uwe Brauer, 2017/02/23