From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:03:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h2ridev.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwhffv37.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:09:32 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> That's a good way, but I don't know if the maintainers would mind, and
> SM> Which maintainers?
>
> The Emacs maintainers. I mean I don't know if you want to have
> fallbacks like that in the Emacs 24 code, since obviously prog-mode
> exists there.
Compatibility code is OK for big packages like Tramp and Gnus,
especially those developed independently or semi-independently of Emacs.
But for stuff like cfengine.el, it's better to just track the Emacs
version, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-23 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 17:18 prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-22 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 18:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-22 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-23 2:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-23 6:03 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-11-23 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-24 6:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-25 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-26 10:57 ` Reiner Steib
2011-11-27 2:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-01 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 16:12 ` changes to cfengine-mode (was: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el) Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 20:32 ` changes to cfengine-mode Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 11:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-08 9:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-13 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 21:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-17 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-21 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 17:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 15:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
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