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Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs
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João Távora |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:24:10 +0100 |
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:16 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Right. And so if this is the goal (and given that I also agree to
> > "start slow"), why not have more :core ELPA packages?
> > Say subr-x.el, as an example. It has no dependencies. Why
> > not make it a :core package right now?
>
> If you overwrite the subr-x functions from, say, Emacs 25.1 with the
> ones in Emacs 28, you'll likely end up with an Emacs that doesn't work.
Curious. Which functions in particular are you thinking about? That's
the aforementioned forward-compatibility problem (or backward,
depending on the perspective) that the compat.e library would also
have, right?
> (And we certainly don't want to take on the maintenance burden of
> writing subr-x in such a way that it's backwards-compatible.)
Then the same problem will happen when you copy these functions
into compat.el. Unless you do what Stefan says, and rename them.
João
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/22
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, João Távora, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs,
João Távora <=
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, João Távora, 2021/09/21
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/22
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, João Távora, 2021/09/22
- Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/22
Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/21
Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/21
Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2021/09/21