Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> Would some of them be useful for Emacs upstream (i.e. for a new release
>> of Emacs 24)?
>
> If someone comes on board and takes the responsibility for releasing
> tarballs of old Emacs version so that they can be compiled on recent
> systems, I don't see why not.  Otherwise, we simply lack the manpower
> for these jobs, because releasing a tarball doesn't only mean fixing
> the sources so they compile, it also means testing the result to make
> sure it works well enough for an official release.
>
> It also means agreeing to accept bug reports about old versions we no
> longer actively develop.
>
> The current situation, where the downstream distros do this job, is
> not a bad one, but only for people who install from distros.  People
> who build their own Emacs must solve these problems themselves.

Luckily Gentoo permits precisely building sources with your own
modifications, and even building on systems other than Gentoo, through
Prefix.

But of course one could just repurpose the patches Gentoo provides.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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