Re: Removing emacs21?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Eric Brown <ecbrown%ericcbrown.com@localhost> writes:

> I recently ported pkgsrc to VSI OpenVMS on x86_64.  Regrettably, Emacs
> 22 was the last upstream version to have VMS code in it, and so I made a
> local emacs22 port, and it in fact, powers this message.
>
> https://github.com/ecbrown/pkgsrc (openvms branch)
>
> What prompts me to write is that Emacs 21 corresponds to a version for
> which there is a de-facto standard freeware CD that contains Emacs 21,
> and so might be a target.  I am also aware of a NetBSD port to VAX
> hardware, so this might be in their area of interest.
>
> Just want to point out that there are at least one or more people
> swirling around these old Emacs ports.

Intteresting to hear about your retrocomputing.   I have dim memories of
VMS, but I was definititely in the BSD-on-VAX world.

I don't see any problem with you adding emacs21, emacs22 into
pkgsrc-wip.