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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:30:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7ee7osi.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877dfavmzw.fsf@posteo.net

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> So before I continue working on this, I would like to ask if there is
> any interest/there are any objections to providing such a library?

I'd appreciate having this available.  As it is, when new features are
added to Emacs, it generally takes a few years, at least, before one can
use them in packages outside of Emacs, since old Emacs versions are used
in the wild for so long.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20 23:35 Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21  0:30 ` Adam Porter [this message]
2021-09-21  4:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21  8:28   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-21 12:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 12:50     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 13:38       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 13:49       ` João Távora
2021-09-21 13:00     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 13:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 13:28         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 13:24     ` João Távora
2021-09-21 13:29       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 13:50         ` João Távora
2021-09-21 14:59     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 12:58   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 13:37     ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 13:54       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 14:18         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 15:02   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 15:40     ` João Távora
2021-09-21 16:10       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 16:22         ` João Távora
2021-09-21 17:22       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 17:29         ` João Távora
2021-09-21 19:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-21 21:06       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 21:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-22  6:48           ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-22 17:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-22 18:54               ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-22 19:15                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-21 21:57       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 22:08         ` João Távora
2021-09-21 22:16           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 22:24             ` João Távora
2021-09-21 22:25               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 22:34                 ` João Távora
2021-09-22  6:53           ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-22  7:12             ` João Távora
2021-09-22  7:14         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 13:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 13:27 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 13:45   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-21 14:05     ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-21 22:24   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22  9:54     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-04 23:00 ` [ELPA] Add compat.el Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-07  7:03   ` Old (static) builds of Emacs Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-07  7:48     ` Michael Albinus
2021-10-07  7:56       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-07 12:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-07 20:29       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-07 21:21         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-30 21:21     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-01 13:15       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-07 20:49   ` [ELPA] Add compat.el Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08  5:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08  9:59       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08 11:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 11:35           ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08  7:45     ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-10-08 10:00       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-15 19:08   ` Philip Kaludercic

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