From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Announce future deprecation.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~4033
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=006a2cde6a831cc8d252911b4b1386d1a4f2eb7a;p=emacs.git

Announce future deprecation.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a507af05777..bf5123f3db0 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -54,8 +54,13 @@ a GIF library.
 +++
 *** Emacs now supports the SVG image format through librsvg2.
 
-** The Mac Carbon port is no longer supported.
-Instead, use... [FIXME what?]
+** New NeXTSTEP-based port
+This provides support for GNUStep (via the GNUStep libraries) and Mac
+OS X (via the Cocoa libraries).  See nextstep/README and
+nextstep/INSTALL in the Emacs source directory.
+
+** Mac OS X is no longer supported via Carbon.
+Use the NeXTSTEP port, described above.
 
 ** The new configuration option "--with-dbus" enables D-Bus language
 bindings for Emacs.
@@ -69,6 +74,17 @@ See the list at the end of etc/MACHINES for details.
 ---
 *** The `emacstool' utility has been removed.
 
+** The following platforms will be removed in a future Emacs version:
+
+*** Libc version 5 on GNU/Linux.
+
+*** Old FreeBSD and NetBSD systems based on the COFF executable
+    format.
+
+*** Solaris versions 2.6 and below.
+
+*** Compilation using the NO_SHARED_LIBS flag.
+
 ---
 ** The configure options `--with-gcc', `--without-gcc' have been removed.
 Configure will use gcc by default.  Set the CC environment variable if