Re: [PATCH 1/1] NEWS: removal of backported support for Emacs version 22

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NEWS: removal of backported support for Emacs version 22

Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:10 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> ---
>  NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
>  
> +Emacs Interface
> +---------------
> +
> +Removal of backported Emacs version 23 functionality for Emacs 22
> +
> +  Two years ago some Emacs 23 functionality that notmuch used were
> +  backported to notmuch to be conditionally used with Emacs version 22.
> +  That worked for a few months until new Emacs 23 features were taken
> +  into use and due to lack of interest no one continued to backport
> +  those. To clean up dead code and to avoid confusion in new
> +  developers these backports are now removed.

Hi Tomi;

What do you think about a more user-focussed item, something like 

,----
| No Emacs 22 support
| -------------------
| 
| We started some Emacs 22 support, but it never really worked, and the
| last remnants have been removed from this release
`----

but better, of course ;).

d

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