From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it planned to remove xemacs compatibility code?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:14:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5z5wau8.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvis8xjq54.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:24:23 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Around Emacs code, I find many Xemacs compatibility code as
>> (cond ((featurep 'xemacs) blah ...)
>> (if (featurep 'xemacs) blah ...)
>
> Those files are typically also distributed separately from Emacs for older
> Emacsen or for XEmacs, so it is better to keep this code so as to minimize
> the difference between the version bundled with Emacs and the other version:
> any difference tends to lead to problems keeping the files in sync.
What about the files that aren't distributed separately?
Also, the manuals of some bundled packages have installation
instructions; should these be kept?
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-26 16:26 Is it planned to remove xemacs compatibility code? CHENG Gao
2004-10-26 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-26 19:14 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2004-10-26 21:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-26 21:17 ` Adrian Aichner
2004-10-27 6:29 ` Cheng Gao
2004-10-27 17:35 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-26 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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