bug#19564: 24.4; eieio backward compatibility

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:36:20 +0100 Thierry Volpiatto 
> <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> TV> There is also a problem now with compiled files, emacs-24.4 compiled
> TV> files are not compatibles with emacs-25 compiled files and vice-versa.
>
> Forgive my ignorance: is that compatibility guaranteed or beneficial?

No, but that's mean that now with these recent changes all people using
helm will have errors in their helm packages when switching
emacs-version until they reinstall all;
And for sure they will not reinstall and I expect tons of bugreport in next
weeks... (I crossfingers hoping I am wrong)
 
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