> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:52:36 +0100
> From: "Chris Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
>
> On 2/12/07, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hope we don't plan on changing _anything_ in this regard before the
> > release, no matter what we find in the specs. The cited fragment from
> > characters.el has been there since before Emacs moved into CVS in 1997!
>
> How is the age of the bug relevant?
The issue seems to be resolved by now, but since you asked a general
question: The age is relevant because it gives you an idea about 2
important factors to consider:
. the severity of the bug (or, rather, the lack thereof)
. how many problems will be caused by changing the old code, since,
as time passes, more and more application-level code tends to
expect the extant behavior
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