From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding iso8601.el to ELPA as a :core package? Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:36:52 -0700 Message-ID: <878sk2zq23.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87o8udj8fq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87y2tfi0jj.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="46997"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:h20czkaj/8rA8wiVAYm5R5HcCAY= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 14 20:37:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCbE-000C4S-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:37:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCbD-0001n6-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCai-0001HZ-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCah-0006CB-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:47316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCah-0006At-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jDCaf-000BL2-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:36:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245515 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> What do you think about adding iso8601 to ELPA as a :core package? It's >> pretty useful, and there's no particular reason it needs to be tied to a >> particular Emacs version. My understanding is that this would be the >> best of both worlds: you only maintain the in-tree version of the >> library, but it's also available to install through ELPA. > > As Paul said, it uses Emacs 27 language features... but it could > probably be rewritten to work in previous versions. I'm not sure how > much work that would be, though. I finally got to looking at this, and I think there's too much that's changed with Emacs 27 time handling. Rewriting iso8601 to not use Emacs 27 features is not feasible, I think. It would be quite a mess (maybe impossible) to try to provide full compatibility for this vcard library, as well, so I think I'm just going to have this require Emacs 27 or later. Thanks, Eric