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* Support (or not) for Emacs 21, and XEmacs
@ 2010-04-14  8:15 Carsten Dominik
  2010-04-16 10:26 ` Carsten Dominik
  2010-04-17 15:39 ` Michael Sperber
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 31+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-04-14  8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Org-Mode List

Hi everyone,

I am, once again, reconsidering support for Emacs 21 and XEmacs
in Org-mode.

Supporting older versions of Emacsen does make the code in
Org-mode more complex, needs time to rewrite or copy features
that do exist in newer versions of Emacs.  Also, it slows down
the process of updating the version of Org-mode distributed
with Emacs, because the compatibility code makes it often hard to
comply with Emacs rules and practices.

What I would like to do is the following.

We are now working toward release 7.0 of Org-mode, which will
hopefully see full integration of org-babel.  I am considering
to make Org-mode version 6.35 the last version of Org-mode
supporting XEmacs and Emacs 21.  That would mean that I would
still fix critical bugs in 6.35 and keep that package on the
website indefinitely.  So people stuck with Emacs 21 and XEmacs do
have an excellent version of Org-mode available.  Git users will
be able indefinitely to select this version of Org-mode to support
and Emacs 21 or XEmacs installation.

For version 7.0 I would then not only stop actively supporting
these older Emacsen, but I would actually remove some of the
twisted code that has accumulated over the years in order to
support older versions.  Important examples are all the
stuff in org-compat, but also key bindings and other stuff.  There
are about 100 cases of (featurep 'xemacs) in the sources, and many
other places where I have to check for the availablility of a
specific feature or function.

If you object to such a development, please step into this
discussion.

- Carsten

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2010-04-14  8:15 Support (or not) for Emacs 21, and XEmacs Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 10:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 10:27   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 12:19   ` Matt Lundin
2010-04-16 16:41     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 13:03   ` Sebastian Rose
2010-04-16 13:13     ` Bernt Hansen
2010-04-16 14:39       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 14:42         ` Bernt Hansen
2010-04-16 14:42           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 19:15             ` Bernt Hansen
2010-04-16 22:02               ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-16 13:32     ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-04-16 13:56       ` Sebastian Rose
2010-04-16 13:07   ` Jan Böcker
2010-04-16 13:47   ` Günter Kolousek
2010-04-17 15:39 ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-17 20:31   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-18  8:22     ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-18 14:03       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-19 11:00         ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-19 11:19           ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-19 15:51             ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-19 15:54               ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-19 15:55                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-19 15:59           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-07  7:51           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-07  8:30             ` Michael Sperber
2010-05-07  9:21               ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-23 15:50         ` Michael Sperber
2010-04-23 19:03           ` Carsten Dominik

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