Re: compat.el and Emacs unstable master branch features

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>>>> Yes, if the Emacs maintainers agree I think this could be done. Take
>>>> compat.el, remove the part which requires compat-29, and copy it to
>>>> lisp/ or lisp/emacs-lisp/. As you said, if Compat (the package) is
>>>> installed it will be preferred over the core compat.el. The advantage of
>>>> this move is that core package could require compat directly without
>>>> passing a noerror argument to require. Furthermore `compat-call' and
>>>> `compat-function' would be available and wouldn't have to be copied as
>>>> is currently the case for example in erc-compat.el.
>>> 
>>> That sounds good!  How does this look like:
>>
>> Yes, this is what I meant. I forgot to mention one additional advantage
>> in my last mail: If the compat.el in core is registered with package.el
>> as builtin with version 30, the ELPA Compat package wouldn't get pulled
>> in by external packages which depend on Compat version 29. The core
>> compat.el version should then be bumped together with the Emacs version.
>
> Nobody raised objections. I recommend sending the patch to debbugs (M-x
> submit-emacs-patch), so that it can be seen by Emacs maintainers.

See bug#66554.

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Philip Kaludercic