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Re: compat unification
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: compat unification |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:31:40 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> What if... there was an ems-compat function in bzr Emacs. It would be
> a, sort of, "official" current-Emacs-to-everything compat layer.
It couldn't be part of Emacs: Emacs-22's ems-compat wouldn't be able to
come with Emacs-24's compatibility functions, would it?
So it'd have to be an ELPA package.
You can go some way with such a package, but it has significant limits.
E.g. you'll still often want to know whether a feature is supported or
not before using it, because you'll want to use some other code if
it's not. Also such compatibility definitions may confuse other
packages who'd check (fboundp 'foo) to see if a particular feature
is present.
Stefan
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, (continued)
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, LluĂs, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Tom Tromey, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Chong Yidong, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/15
- Re: elpa.gnu.org policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- compat unification (was: elpa.gnu.org policy), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: compat unification,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: compat unification, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: compat unification, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/16
- RE: elpa.gnu.org policy, Drew Adams, 2010/11/16
Re: ELPA policy, Tom Tromey, 2010/11/15
Re: ELPA policy, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/15
Re: ELPA policy, Richard Stallman, 2010/11/16