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Re: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Require Emacs >=24.3 for next Org versions?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:41:16 -0400

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  > The issue, which admittedly doesn't really have much to do with Org and
  > was meant as a side remark, still stands that package manager can't
  > install different packages or package versions for different Emacs
  > versions.  If you wanted to do that, you'd need to create an ELPA
  > archive for each version of Emacs and teach people to use the right one
  > for the version they currently use.  That strikes me as odd.

An Org mode developer said they don't have the manpower to maintain
parallel versions of Org mode for different Emacs versions.  Thus,
there is no need in this context to discuss how the package system
could handle parallel versions of Org mode.

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