changeset 96855:e72ec51e8f3e

Announce future deprecation.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:46 +0000
parents b9de9e7dceed
children 63b71b36a2c6
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Jul 21 14:20:24 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Jul 21 14:49:46 2008 +0000
@@ -54,8 +54,13 @@
 +++
 *** 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 @@
 ---
 *** 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