[Nix-dev] Re: Is Emacs 22 still needed?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> is anyone aware of a reason why we should week Emacs 22 in nixpkgs?

Someone could need it, e.g., because of some incompatibility or because
some Emacs mode hasn’t been upgraded to 23.  That’s arguably becoming
less and less likely, but who knows.

> As far as I can tell, the package is unused;

But you can’t actually tell.  :-)

> version 23 has been the default for quite a while now. To simplify
> matters, I'd like to remove the old version.

I don’t use 22 but I wonder to what extent keeping it is a burden.
What do you think?

Thanks,
Ludo’.