From: Chong Yidong Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:29:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Move deprecation message to Installation Changes and rewrite it. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.1.92~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=090fc4cf2353b9a51ca90b7481ca59a73b55d6c2;p=emacs.git Move deprecation message to Installation Changes and rewrite it. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 439624eeb42..914f79acc1b 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -42,6 +42,25 @@ below. Emacs tries to warn you about these through `bad-packages-alist'. ** Support for GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU userland and FreeBSD kernel) was added. +** Deprecated machine types and operating systems + +Certain machine types and operating systems have been deprecated. On +these systems, configure will print a warning and exit, and you must +edit the configure script for compilation to proceed. The deprecated +systems will not be supported at all in Emacs 23. We are not aware of +anyone running Emacs on these systems; if you are, please email +emacs-devel@gnu.org to take it off the list of deprecated systems. + +*** Deprecated machine types +pmax, hp9000s300, ibm370aix, ncr386, ews4800, mips-siemens, powerpcle, +and tandem-s2 + +*** Deprecated operating systems +bsd386, bsdos2-1, bsdos2, bsdos3, bsdos4, bsd4-1, bsd4-2, bsd4-3, +usg5-0, usg5-2-2, usg5-2, usg5-3, ultrix4-3, 386bsd, hpux, hpux8, +hpux9, hpux9shr, hpux10, hpux10-20, aix3-1, aix3-2-5, aix3-2, aix4-1, +nextstep, ux4800, uxpds, and uxpv + * Changes in Emacs 22.2 ** `describe-project' is renamed to `describe-gnu-project'. @@ -170,14 +189,6 @@ of strings, undoing any quoting added by `combine-and-quote-strings'. (For some separator/string combinations, the original strings cannot be recovered.) -* Systems that will not be supported in the future -configure will print a warning and exit for a set of systems that are -believed to not be in use anymore. The support has not been removed -yet, but configure will need to be edited in order to allow -compilation to proceed on such a system. If you are using such a -system, please send a message to emacs-devel@gnu.org in order to take -off the list of systems. - * Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1