From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16573: 24.3; Auctex (11.87.2) in Elpa issues hundreds of warnings on compile Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:54:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k3dkttex.fsf__27231.9985939705$1390896945$gmane$org@gnu.org> <8761p4585h.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87ppnb4u6p.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87txcni9rj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391004182 22508 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2014 14:03:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16573@debbugs.gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 29 15:03:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W8VjQ-0005S2-4v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:03:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8VjP-0000eG-3v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Vbx-0005wi-0S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Vbp-00062f-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Vba-0005lI-Uf; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W8VbZ-0007GR-S4; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-auctex@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16573 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,auctex X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16573-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16573.139100365527863 (code B ref 16573); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16573) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Jan 2014 13:54:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39994 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Vao-0007FL-EU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:39289) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Val-0007FB-9z for 16573@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:54:12 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZg5/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZg5/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="46334549" Original-Received: from 69-165-152-57.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.152.57]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 29 Jan 2014 08:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E40B86032D; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:54:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87txcni9rj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:26:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:84216 Archived-At: >> Admittedly I haven't spent much time dealing with compatibility with >> older Emacsen lately, but in the past I've never found warnings useful >> for that work. So I only ever used warnings to help debug & improve my >> code on my "main" Emacs version, and completely ignored warnings when >> porting to older Emacsen (relying on testing and bug-reports instead). > I can't speak for other eLisp libraries, but testing came late for Org > and test coverage isn't quite up where it would need to be for this to > work. By testing I meant "start up an old Emacs and try to play a bit with the feature see if it seems to work". Of course, if you have a test suite scripted up and all, that's even better. > Besides, testing on older Emacsen gets rather difficult since they > don't compile on my system any more and I'd need to set up a container > or VM. "dpkg" was able to install emacs19, emacs20, emacs21, emacs22, emacs23, emacs24 on my machines, so I haven't had to build them by hand. Stefan