Re: On release numbering

[Mark Diekhans]

Hi John,

discussion below

John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> writes:
> So I'm now using VM 8.3.0b as the version number is given in git main
> branch.  When compiling on emacs 28.x on Debian 12 Bookworm, I'm
> seeing a bunch of warnings like this:

gitlab main should have a version number of 8.3.x.

I would suggest doing a pull and then rerunning autoconf.  The
version is in configure.ac

>    vm.el:769:1: Warning: ‘defun*’ is an obsolete alias (as of 27.1); use
>        ‘cl-defun’ instead.

A fix to the defun* issue has been merge.  However, there are
other warning that need to be fix.  I think most of the easy.


> so I'll try to work up a patch, but then I need to test it back to
> older versions of emacs.  Do we have an idea of how far back we want
> to go with emacs support?  

Good question.   My opinion would be ensuring it works with emacs 27
would be good, but we really have no data to go off of.  It might
be a wait and see what happens when people use it.

In the unlikely event that something be warning in an early
version, but not in 29, I wouldn't worry about it.


THANK YOU!