bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core

[Stefan Kangas]

Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:

>> If you want to label the `most-positive-fixnum` as a hack, I guess
>> that's OK but then the comment should clarify what it's referring to.
>
> I may be wrong, but I assume that Philip considers the autoload a hack.
> In this thread we discussed various alternatives to approach this
> problem, e.g., the package version regexp (another hack), or my naive
> idea of simply writing 29.1.9999 in the compat.el package header (yet
> another hack).

IMHO, the "naive" (why naive?) number 9999 is more readable, and in
practice will be the same as using most-positive-fixnum.  So I'd just
use that.