Re: Migrating from compile-internal (psgml)

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 05:38:04 -0400 florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) 
wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I have just discovered that C-c C-v (sgml-validate) does not work in
> psgml anymore because it uses an obsolete function, which has
> disappeared as of Emacs 24.3 (namely, compile-internal).
>
> I have found out how to work around this (get a copy of a pre-24.3
> compile.el and load it before calling sgml-validate), but I am
> wondering if there is some rather straightforward, standard way of
> migrating such packages to the new way that compile.el offers, because
> my workaround is surely not a clean way of dealing with this. What I
> have read about the changes seemed rather a little discouraging.
>
> (An alternative might be creating some kind of intermediate layer,
> which emulates compile-internal, but it would have to make sure that
> other packages are not confused.)
>
> Other packages must surely have migrated, too, it seems to me ... Any
> suggestions?

Maybe psgml can do what smgl-mode did long ago:

2005-08-26  Romain Francoise  <romain@orebokech.com>

        [...]    
        * textmodes/sgml-mode.el (sgml-validate): Use `compilation-start'
        instead of the obsolete `compile-internal'.

Steve Berman