From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: mail@daniel-mendler.de, philipk@posteo.net,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 66554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:40:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sf2tx1uq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=r-tqth05EC5XvNc+dR5fh9jjcb0+XVMMHPgJ48AUEew@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:33:31 -0800)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:33:31 -0800
> Cc: mail@daniel-mendler.de, 66554@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> +** New package Compat
> >> +The Compat package on GNU ELPA provides forwards-compatibility
> >> +support, so that packages that still provide support for older
> >
> > I think this is known as "backward compatibility".
>
> AFAIU, backwards-compatibility is about making code written for Emacs 28
> work without changes on Emacs 29 (N -> N+1).
>
> But forwards-compatibility is about making code written for Emacs 29
> work without changes on Emacs 28 (N -> N-1).
>
> Compat is doing the latter.
AFAIU, Compat allows Lisp programs written for newer Emacs version to
work with older Emacs versions. This makes those Lisp programs
compatible with old versions of Emacs, and in my book this is
backwards-compatibility. But if I'm the only one who thinks that, so
be it.
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2023-10-15 9:35 bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-10 22:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 5:27 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 7:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
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2024-01-11 17:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 17:58 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 19:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 20:24 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 20:43 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 21:01 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 16:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 18:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 18:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 22:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-13 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-13 12:23 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 19:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-18 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 20:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-19 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-19 6:52 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 20:35 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-19 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-19 6:57 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-19 16:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-19 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-24 6:23 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-26 7:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
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2024-01-26 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-01 15:53 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-02 8:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-02 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 19:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 19:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-07 17:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-07 17:31 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-07 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 7:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-08 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 10:47 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 16:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-10 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 16:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-10 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 17:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 17:47 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 18:14 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-11 21:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-18 20:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-19 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 20:41 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 23:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-19 5:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-19 6:42 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 20:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 20:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 7:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 19:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 20:07 ` Philip Kaludercic
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