Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Next release?

[Arash Esbati]

Hi Mosè,

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

> 2016-12-29 0:06 GMT+01:00 Davide G. M. Salvetti <address@hidden>:
>> Hi developers,
>>
>> some time and many commits have passed since AUCTeX 11.89... are there
>> any plans about releasing 11.90?
>
> There are currently no plans, but we can do it soonish.
>
> Is there anything that someone would like to complete before new
> release (like pending patches)?  Tassilo, Arash?

I've just pushed my pending patches to git.  One thing still open is my
suggestion here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2016-10/msg00004.html

There was no response to it, so I assume it was ok :-)  I'm not sure if
it still applies cleanly to Emacs.  If you (and others) think it is ok,
I would prepare a new patch and ping Tassilo.

>> Many deep thanks to everybody who has been working on AUCTeX by a happy
>> long time user (it's now at least 20 years, IIRC).
>
> Nice to have so much loyal users :-)

+1 :-)

While we're at it, do we want to review our compat policy?  XEmacs was
supposed to go in a maintenance mode, but the way I see it, it seems to
be gone (and that is a pity!).  Homepage is mirrored here[1], source
seems to be here[2].

The same question would go for Emacs:

September 17, 2016 - Emacs 25.1 released
April 10, 2015     - Emacs 24.5 released
October 20, 2014   - Emacs 24.4 released
March 11, 2013     - Emacs 24.3 released
August 27, 2012    - Emacs 24.2 released
June 10, 2012      - Emacs 24.1 released
January 29, 2012   - Emacs 23.4 released
March 10, 2011     - Emacs 23.3 released
May 8, 2010        - Emacs 23.2 released
July 29, 2009      - Emacs 23.1 released
September 5, 2008  - Emacs 22.3 released
March 26, 2008     - Emacs 22.2 released
June 2, 2007       - Emacs 22.1 released
Feb 6, 2005        - Emacs 21.4 released
March 24, 2003     - Emacs 21.3 released
March 18, 2002     - Emacs 21.2 released
October 28, 2001   - Emacs 21.1 released

Which ones do we want to support, and which to drop?

Best, Arash


Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.xemacs.neoscientists.org/index.html

[2]  https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/xemacs