From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, 60990-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60990: 29.0.60; New seq release 2.24
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 18:07:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ccb9edc-bb5d-60bb-6c7e-2c42732312c7@daniel-mendler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvv8cj8i5q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 9/9/23 17:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> It is a bit unfortunate that the code has to be duplicated but it may be
>> a bit too early to drop Emacs 24 support from seq altogether?
>
> In my experience, the better way to handle backward compatibility is in
> a reactive rather than proactive way, especially when talking about
> compatibility with 10 year old software.
Actually I don't disagree. It looked as if the seq package aims to
provide all seq functions on all supported Emacs versions. Compat almost
fully supports 24.4 and newer, which works surprisingly well. Philip
initially even added support for 24.3 but this led to serious complications.
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-09 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-21 14:51 bug#60990: 29.0.60; New seq release 2.24 Daniel Mendler
2023-09-04 15:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-04 16:16 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-04 17:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-04 17:32 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-04 18:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-04 19:23 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-04 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-04 20:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-04 21:12 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-04 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-05 7:44 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-09 8:15 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-09 12:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-09 13:42 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-09-09 21:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-09 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-09 16:07 ` Daniel Mendler [this message]
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