Compatibilities with older Emacs

[Rémi Vanicat]

Hello list,

Recently in [1] and [2] it appeared that we lost compatibility with
older version of Emacs. Do we decide that we won't try to be compatible
with Emacs 21 and XEmacs, then we should wrote it in the documentation,
or is there somewhere someone willing to tried to restore this
compatibility?

[1] https://github.com/philjackson/magit/issuesearch?state=open&q=xemacs#issue/145
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git.magit/943
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Rémi Vanicat

[Samuel Wales]

I don't know about Emacs 21 or XEmacs. I do know that occasionally
incompatibilities with Emacs 22 arise, because I rely on 22 (old box,
no 23). They get fixed. I hope that continues.

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[Rémi Vanicat]

Samuel Wales <samol...@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know about Emacs 21 or XEmacs. I do know that occasionally
> incompatibilities with Emacs 22 arise, because I rely on 22 (old box,
> no 23). They get fixed. I hope that continues.

Well some of us still have an Emacs22, so we can try to fix
incompatibilities, but I don't have Emacs21 on my dev box, and there are
still people using it, so the question is: should we try to be
compatibly with (X)Emacs21, or should we just tell the world we don't
have the manpower.
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[Samuel Wales]

Dunno WRT policy here, but there are still a few people who use Emacs
21 and XEmacs. With Org they use an earlier version for Emacs 21. I
think an XEmacs dev makes changes to XEmacs to support Org, or
something, thereby removing some of the difficulty from maintaining
Org. Perhaps that is an option with magit.

I know as a 22 user that I can't upgrade to 23/24. I don't know if
the Emacs 21 users can or not.