Hi everyone, I am, once again, reconsidering support for Emacs 21 and XEmacs in Org-mode.
Supporting older versions of Emacsen does make the code in Org-mode more complex, needs time to rewrite or copy features that do exist in newer versions of Emacs. Also, it slows down the process of updating the version of Org-mode distributed with Emacs, because the compatibility code makes it often hard to comply with Emacs rules and practices. What I would like to do is the following. We are now working toward release 7.0 of Org-mode, which will hopefully see full integration of org-babel. I am considering to make Org-mode version 6.35 the last version of Org-mode supporting XEmacs and Emacs 21. That would mean that I would still fix critical bugs in 6.35 and keep that package on the website indefinitely. So people stuck with Emacs 21 and XEmacs do have an excellent version of Org-mode available. Git users will be able indefinitely to select this version of Org-mode to support and Emacs 21 or XEmacs installation. For version 7.0 I would then not only stop actively supporting these older Emacsen, but I would actually remove some of the twisted code that has accumulated over the years in order to support older versions. Important examples are all the stuff in org-compat, but also key bindings and other stuff. There are about 100 cases of (featurep 'xemacs) in the sources, and many other places where I have to check for the availablility of a specific feature or function. If you object to such a development, please step into this discussion. - Carsten _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
