[debbugs-tracker] bug#16007: closed (admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version)

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> admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version
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> Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:54:22 -0500
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs
> Version: 24.3.50
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> The charsets etc/charsets/MULE*.map are generated files, produced by
> admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el. But this requires Emacs 21.3 or 22,
> it does not work with modern Emacs. Therefore Emacs cannot
> self-bootstrap without an old Emacs around. I think this is a problem.
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> Re: bug#16007: admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version
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> Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:15:18 +0300
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> > Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:40:00 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
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> > > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:49:09 +0900
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> > > > Why is it a problem to make changes in mule-charsets.el so that it
> > > > could work both with Emacs 22 and with the latest versions of Emacs?
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> > > Because we don't have a reasonable explanation why we have
> > > that file and keep it runnable with the latest Emacs.
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> > > > What do we lose if we make such a change in mule-charsets.el?
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> > > We will waste a time of future maintainers who must keep
> > > that file runnable with the latest Emacs.  It's a waste
> > > because such an effort yields nothing.
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> > Stefan, I guess this becomes your call, then.
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> I see that Handa-san fixed this in revision 115426.1.2, so I'm closing
> this bug.
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