Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el

[Chong Yidong]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

>>> That's a good way, but I don't know if the maintainers would mind, and
> SM> Which maintainers?
>
> The Emacs maintainers.  I mean I don't know if you want to have
> fallbacks like that in the Emacs 24 code, since obviously prog-mode
> exists there.

Compatibility code is OK for big packages like Tramp and Gnus,
especially those developed independently or semi-independently of Emacs.
But for stuff like cfengine.el, it's better to just track the Emacs
version, I think.