Re: Cleaning up further compat code

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> No, please don't.  If you want to keep that data, keep it in the
> affected files, not in a separate file.
>
> How 'bout a pseudo-header like
>
>    Should-work-in: Emacs-trunk
>
> This way it can also be used for other cases such as
>
>    Should-work-in: XEmacs
>
> or
>
>    Should-work-in: Emacs≥23

I like it, but I assumed that was off the table, since these files are
maintained outside Emacs.  :-)  If we can do janitorial changes to files
to clarify that we shouldn't do janitorial changes in them, then things
get easier to handle.

> For multifile packages, we could put that pseudo-header only in the
> main file.

Well...  then this no longer can be automated.  I'd really like to have
a mode line thing stating the maintainability status of the file when
doing cleanups...

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