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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 39233@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39233: .elc file - possibly outdated backward compatibility comments
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:14:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rro3c01.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftg48yiz.fsf@marxist.se> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:06:28 +0100")

>> +       (format "    (message \"BEWARE: %%S was compiled by a more recent
>> version of Emacs (%s)\" #$))" emacs-version)
> Is this important enough to warrant using `warn' instead?

I don't have any strong opinion on this.  I went with `message` because
it seems to be less likely to cause trouble or annoyance: it's
reasonably easy to ignore messages whereas `warn`s are more "in your
face" in my experience.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-24 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22  8:44 bug#39233: .elc file - possibly outdated backward compatibility comments Stefan Kangas
2020-01-22 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24  9:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-24 14:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24 14:36       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-24 16:08         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-24 15:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-24 17:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24 18:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-24 19:06             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-24 19:14               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-24 19:19             ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-24 20:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-21 12:56             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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