Re: Put updated package.el in ELPA? (and cl-lib backport)

[Chong Yidong]

Daniel Hackney <address@hidden> writes:

> The version of package.el shipped with 24.2 is forward-compatible for
> both -pkg.el files and archive-contents. It simply ignores any
> additional attributes at the end of the package-desc vectors.
>
> So older versions won't break, but they (obviously) won't use the the
> new features.

Which is a perfectly fine situation; I don't see the rush.  I'd rather
keep package.el a core Emacs package, tightly coupled to Emacs releases,
than deal with a ton of ugly compatibility code in package.el (or its
package) to make it work on Emacs < 24.3.