From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Robert Horn <rjhorn@panix.com>
Cc: , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, rjhorn@alum.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Bug: Org mode fails to compile using Emacs 24.5-r10 [9.4.5 (9.4.5-g3ea248 @ /home/yantar92/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:36:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735v99k6t.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r1it408l.fsf@panix.com> (Robert Horn's message of "Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:46:34 -0400")
>>>>> Robert Horn <rjhorn@panix.com> writes:
> Colin Baxter writes:
>>>>>>> Robert Horn <rjhorn@panix.com> writes:
>>
>> > Timothy writes:
>>
>> >> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this is a good time to start a discussion about moving
>> >> Org's minimum supported Emacs to 25...?
>>
>> > I checked Red Hat, Centos, Debian, SuSE, and Ubuntu. They are
>> all > 25.1 or later in their current distributions. So that will
>> > probably not cause too much breakage.
>>
>> > -- Robert Horn rjhorn@alum.mit.edu
>>
>> Debian 9.13 (which is still supported) has emacs-24.
> Interesting question about LTS. How far back should we consider
> when estimating the impact of a change like this? I was looking
> at current stable versions to estimate the impact of the change.
> Lots of users avoid the bleeding edge distribution releases, but
> most update to track the current stable/LTS releases. Or they
> won't complain that it's unfair for org to expect them to update
> emacs to the current stable/LTS version.
> Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS and SuSE are 25.1 or above for their most
> recent long term support releases. Some of these distributions go
> a lot further with various forms of long term support. I think
> Red Hat goes back 8 years for example, and that emacs is really
> old.
> It looks like 25.1 is available, but not yet the default for
> Debian "stretch" (Debian 9.13), which is the "oldstable" for
> Debian. With Debian backport efforts I don't know if this means
> months or years. The web page for Emacs25inStretch has not
> changed since 2017, so it might never happen.
Debian 9.13 may be old but updates are still made available. While
Debian supports the os-version and therefore by implication emacs-24, I
feel org-mode shouldn't deliberately break that support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-29 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-28 14:29 Bug: Org mode fails to compile using Emacs 24.5-r10 [9.4.5 (9.4.5-g3ea248 @ /home/yantar92/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)] Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-28 14:48 ` Timothy
2021-04-28 15:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-28 15:47 ` Timothy
2021-04-30 7:26 ` Bastien
2021-05-01 13:57 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-01 14:33 ` Bastien
2021-04-28 21:21 ` Robert Horn
2021-04-29 9:10 ` Colin Baxter
2021-04-29 14:46 ` Robert Horn
2021-04-29 15:36 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2021-04-29 15:51 ` Timothy
2021-04-29 16:04 ` Colin Baxter
2021-04-29 19:42 ` Tim Cross
2021-04-30 7:25 ` Bastien
2021-09-28 5:33 ` Bastien
2021-09-28 17:06 ` Bug: Org mode fails to compile using Emacs 24.5-r10 Max Nikulin
2021-09-28 20:36 ` Samuel Wales
2021-09-28 23:57 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-29 6:59 ` Bastien
2021-09-29 6:58 ` Bastien
2021-09-28 23:34 ` Bug: Org mode fails to compile using Emacs 24.5-r10 [9.4.5 (9.4.5-g3ea248 @ /home/yantar92/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)] Tim Cross
2021-09-29 6:45 ` Bastien
2021-05-01 5:08 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-05-01 13:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-01 14:35 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-05-01 20:13 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-05-01 20:27 ` Bastien
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