Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Removing obsolete contents from configure script etc.

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Keita,

thanks for tackling this!

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:58 AM Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I removed a lot of obsolete compatibility codes for older emacsen from
> AUCTeX recently.  I would like to finish it by modifying configure
> script and Makefiles.
>
> However, I know almost nothing about autoconf.  So I'd like to have
> reviewed my proposal before actual commit.  Could you take a look at the
> attached patch and test it?  (I just did "look, guess and mimic" method
> to make these changes.)  I confirmed that it works on my machine, but am
> not firmly sure that it doesn't fail in other environments.
>
> I would appreciate your feedbacks.

I didn't test them, but the patch looks good overall.  Perhaps you may
want to remove references to the Windows build, too, as we don't do
that anymore?

> Also, I doubt the necessity of auctex.spec and preview-latex.spec
> currently.  It seems that they are not maintained for rather long period
> and no one complains about it these days.  I suppose they can be removed
> as well.

They're used to build RPM packages.  We don't do that ourselves, thus
I'd remove them as well.

Bye,
Mosè