On 2010-04-29 01:14 +0100, Roger Crew wrote: > I don't believe anybody was proposing otherwise. > > Somthing's a little confused here. My best guess at this point > is that the patch you posted may not have been what you intended, > since it *only* changes the behavior of Emacs 22 and earlier > --- the versions you ostensibly don't care about --- > > from immediately dying to just charging straight ahead and > restarting the server no matter what, and it's *that* change > that I was responding to. > > (...and yes I'd like to not have to care about Emacs 22, either, > but until Debian does its next major release, a lot of us are > stuck with it...)
Compatibility for emacs 22 is not too bad. That said, I don't think the fact Debian provides Emacs 22 justifies it. If you follow Debian's logic, you will be using a version of magit.el that works with older version of emacs and git. The burden will not be placed on the upstream development. Leo
