On Apr 28, 8:05 pm, Leo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > (...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. That only follows if there actually *exists* a Debian package for magit.el available in the current stable distribution. Maybe in the future that will be the case, but for now, there currently is no such animal because magit is too new. Therefore, in practice, people who want to try out magit will be grabbing it from wherever they can, which generally means they'll be grabbing the latest version. There's also the small matter that for most Emacs libraries like magit that live entirely in one file, it's silly to wait for someone to make up an install package when you can just grab the .el/.elc file, stick it in site-lisp, add an autoload or two to your .emacs, and you're good to go. So I'm not sure it's even generally a good idea to be relying on people always installing from their respective distributions > The burden will not be placed on the upstream development. The burden on upstream development is to put out something that works with whatever people are currently likely to be using... which right now is a mix of Emacs 22 and Emacs 23.
