If I remember correctly Emacs 24 was released in the first half of 2012. Ubuntu stable definitely had Emacs 24 since Quantal (Oct 2012), and I am sure that other distros are similar. One can also consider versions of distros which are released less frequently (eg Ubuntu LTS), but Ubuntu 12.04 has backports of Emacs24 and the new LTS is coming out anyway in April.
Given that upgrading a Linux desktop distribution is fairly easy and it should be kept up to date anyway, I don't see a reason to support previous version --- maybe I am being selfish, but I would prefer if Dirk devoted that time and effort to new features and bugfixes instead. Best, Tamas PS.: I hope I am not to Linux-centric, don't use Windows or OS X, but AFAIK installing Emacs 24 on either should not be more difficult than any other version of Emacs. On Mon, Mar 03 2014, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there some features in upcoming release which would make upgrade to next > version > absolute necessity? > > If not than emacs23 users could just continue using previous version - it > works just > fine for a lot of people as far as I recall. > > cheers, > Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mu-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
