Hi, Richard! On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Even so, it would be several years before major modes could start > using it in earnest, due to the need to continue supporting older > Emacs versions. >Supporting other Emacs versions is a secondary issue. We will start >using this feature right away, in all the modes where it helps. Indeed, that is a "luxury" you enjoy in the core team. Since people will be downloading Emacs as a Mega-tarball, everything works with everything else, modulo the occasional bug. Down at the CC Mode, though, we put a lot of effort into keeping our product compatible with as many recent (and not-all-that-recent) Emacs and XEmacs releases as we can. We know that people will be downloading and installing CC Mode directly rather than getting it with new Emacs releases, if perhaps not all that many people. We don't like to mess them around. I suspect other mode teams feel the same. Just a small point. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
