Re: Moving files from lisp/gnus/ to lisp/net/?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, address@hidden wrote:

> Gnus is mainly useful to the GNU Project is as a part of Emacs.
> Support for using new versions of Gnus in old Emacs versions is nice
> if you want to do it, but it's not essential for Gnu.

What is considered "old"?  21.2 and lower?  21.1 and lower?

Also I know a lot of effort goes into making Gnus compatible with
XEmacs.  Is that consistent with your views?

> I don' think this is a hard problem to solve, once you put your mind
> to it.

If there's a cutoff, sure.  Testing on multiple Emacs versions is the
real pain, I think the users mostly do it for us.

Thanks
Ted