Re: declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el)

[Ralf Angeli]

* Richard Stallman (2007-12-02) writes:

>     But the point here is that people should take care when changing code
>     of packages which are supposed to work with other Emacs versions than
>     the one they are integrated in.
>
> It isn't crucial for the files in the Emacs repository to work with
> old Emacs versions.  They just have to work in the next release.

If those files belong to a package which is also being maintained in a
different repository and released independently of Emacs, this will
lead to a fork.  And I don't want that to happen with RefTeX.

-- 
Ralf