From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [DEV] Bump Emacs requirement to 24.4?
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:02:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bne8eunz.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r3n5dk0v.fsf@gnu.org
Bastien Guerry <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> We can also simply revert those change and wait for the decision
> to be taken. This is a matter of waiting ~10 days I'd say.
>
>> Also, Emacs 24.3 was released in March, 2013. By the time the next Org is
>> released, it will be more than 3 years old.
>
> Com'on :)
>
> I'm back for good and don't plan to wait years between releases.
> I wish we can release 8.4 at the end of August and 9.0 in October.
It was not meant as 'finger-pointing'. Slow releases are not necessarily
a bad thing. Org is very important to the work of some folks, so a slow
cycle might be less disruptive. OTOH, so could frequent releases... I
don't know, really.
Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou writes:
>> Just to be sure, can we require Emacs 24.4 for development version
>> (a.k.a. Org 8.4)? As a data point, Debian stable provides it.
>
> Debian Squeeze LTS or whatever they call it doesn't w/o backports.
> RHEL6 doesn't have it w/o epel (RHEL7 has 24.3 IIRC).
> RaspberryPi doesn't have it.
I have Emacs 24.4 on my Debian Wheezy which is pretty old. Can ELPA serve
different versions based on the client?
> I'm still falling over Emacs 22 in various forms and Emacs 23, where it
> is standard is not always at the latest version (23.4).
If ELPA can (0) be used with Emacs-23 and (1) ELPA is smart enough to
serve the right version of Org, I don't think this is a problem.
>> Also, what is the status of XEmacs support? AFAIU Org 8.3 doesn't build
>> on XEmacs but no one is complaining. We may as well drop it and ignore
>> most of "org-compat.el".
>
> I've been doing a lot of this compat stuff, but I gave up since I
> couldn't get ERT to work on XEmacs. Org did build (with lots of errors)
> until some point and it was at least superficially usable. The two
> XEmacs users on this list have never responded to any requests for
> further testing. So I guess that XEmacs can be considered
> unsupportable.
And THESE are the hidden dependency when targeting older Emacs. We have
so many org-prefixed functions that have equivalents in cl-lib.
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>> We don't need to complete the whole 8.x series and may jump to 9.0
>> soonish, but for the time being, I suggest you create a 9.0 branch
>> with the 24.3 requirement and changes that cannot go without it.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> I think it is a mistake.
>
> Handling two development branches means people testing Org have to
> choose which branch to test. We don't have the manpower to waste testing
> capabilities like that.
>
> I also see no reason to write outdated code (e.g., new libraries without
> lexical binding) and update it later.
I agree strongly with the above.
Rasmus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-15 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 19:39 [DEV] Bump Emacs requirement to 24.4? Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-05 19:38 ` Kaushal
2015-08-05 21:13 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-05 21:51 ` Rasmus
2015-08-06 5:42 ` Robert Klein
2015-08-06 8:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-06 8:23 ` Robert Klein
2015-08-06 8:25 ` Rasmus
2015-08-15 7:21 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 7:29 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-15 8:15 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 8:30 ` Rasmus
2015-08-15 8:37 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 9:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-15 10:02 ` Rasmus [this message]
2015-08-15 12:14 ` Robert Horn
2015-08-15 9:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-15 14:23 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 19:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-15 23:30 ` Bastien
2015-08-16 6:08 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-16 8:13 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-16 18:03 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-18 23:01 ` Bastien
2015-08-19 5:22 ` David Engster
2015-08-19 9:52 ` Bastien
2015-08-19 6:04 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-19 9:40 ` Bastien
2015-08-19 10:31 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-19 16:11 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-19 20:07 ` Rasmus
2015-08-20 23:02 ` Bastien
2015-09-16 7:58 ` Rasmus
2015-08-05 22:22 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-06 1:07 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-15 8:45 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-15 9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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