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Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans

From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans
Date: 2008年3月06日 13:56:15 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) 
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
>> The following paragraph in etc/NEWS seems to be both badly worded,
>> in the wrong place, and perhaps only intended for the pretest.
>> In any case, please check it:
>>
>> * Systems that will not be supported in the future
>> configure will print a warning and exit for a set of systems that are
>> believed to not be in use anymore. The support has not been removed
>> yet, but configure will need to be edited in order to allow
>> compilation to proceed on such a system. If you are using such a
>> system, please send a message to address@hidden in order to take
>> off the list of systems.
>
> 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"
I've checked in a change that moves the entry into the Installation
Changes section and makes it (IMO) slightly clearer:
 ** Deprecated machine types and operating systems
 
 Certain machine types and operating systems have been deprecated. On
 these systems, configure will print a warning and exit, and you must
 edit the configure script for compilation to proceed. The deprecated
 systems will not be supported at all in Emacs 23. We are not aware of
 anyone running Emacs on these systems; if you are, please email
 address@hidden to take it off the list of deprecated systems.
 
 *** Deprecated machine types
 pmax, hp9000s300, ibm370aix, ncr386, ews4800, mips-siemens, powerpcle,
 and tandem-s2
 
 *** Deprecated operating systems
 bsd386, bsdos2-1, bsdos2, bsdos3, bsdos4, bsd4-1, bsd4-2, bsd4-3,
 usg5-0, usg5-2-2, usg5-2, usg5-3, ultrix4-3, 386bsd, hpux, hpux8,
 hpux9, hpux9shr, hpux10, hpux10-20, aix3-1, aix3-2-5, aix3-2, aix4-1,
 nextstep, ux4800, uxpds, and uxpv
As for changing the configure script to add an option to enable
deprecated builds, it would be fine if someone wants to do it, but I
don't think it's necesary. I *seriously* doubt anyone's using Emacs
22 on these systems, and anyone who is surely has the expertise to
make the required simple change to the configure script.
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