On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:45:44AM +0100, Tamas Papp wrote: > 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.
I doubt that. Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't have it in the standard repo and it will not be backported to Debian stable either. Too many problems I hear. > > 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. > Adding new features makes a project more "buggy". So you're constantly turning over new features and bug-fixes all of the time. Polish the features which are already present before moving on. Even it means if the features are a little bit short. NB. Don't top-post in a group. -- 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.
