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Please add the 23.2 release #44

Closed tarsius closed 7 years ago

tarsius commented 10 years ago

Could you please add version 23.2 of Emacs? It's ancient and all - but it is also what is shipped with Debian oldstable (squeeze). Unfortunately we decided that this therefor is the minimal version Magit should support, and I intend to stick to that, at least until the next release. Thanks.

tarsius commented 10 years ago

Hm. Digging around some more I think I cannot yet drop Cassou's ppa in favor of this (as much as I would like too). The biggest problem is that evm doesn't provide any binary snapshots, (and I want to test on travis, without the building-emacs-delay). It also would be nice if pre-releases such as 24.3.91 were available. And, because there is an upcoming release, there are currently two "bleeding edge" Emacs branches: master and emacs-24 - so it might be a good idea to add emacs-24-snapshot in addition to emacs-git-snapshot.

It's a lot to ask and I understand if you don't want to go through all that trouble. I can stick to Cassou's ppa, after all it still works well.

rejeep commented 10 years ago

The biggest problem is that evm doesn't provide any binary snapshots

All versions that have a -bin at the end are precompiled.

It also would be nice if pre-releases such as 24.3.91

Yeah, that would be awesome. I would very much like to automate the process of building precompiled versions so that these kind of versions are available.

I would like to run a job on my computer that starts up a EC2 spot instance, builds Emacs and uploads to S3. But that would take quite some time and effort, which I don't currently have.