Re: [ELPA] New package: ERC

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas writes:
>
>> Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Oh, right.  I just recalled that we used to have an `erc-compat.el'
>>> that we obsoleted last year.  I think I will revive that and put it
>>> back into lisp/erc/, and that the additional things I wanted in there.
>>
>> I just marked the unused stuff in there explicitly obsolete, so it
>> should be easy to just move it out of obsolete/ and continue from there.
>>
>> Perhaps it is better to do it before Emacs 28.1 to avoid any confusion,
>> even if the only concrete step is to move the file out of obsolete/.
>>
>
> Thanks.  I've been a bit torn about restoring `erc-compat.el'
> vs. potentially working something out with Philip's `compat.el'.
> However, I suppose if we're very close to `emacs-28' being cut (as in
> days ?) and if `compat.el' is currently mainly only a proposal and not
> being urgently added,

To clarify, compat would be an ELPA package (and if accepted, it
wouldn't be added before Emacs 28.1 is released).

>it would probably be better for me to go ahead
> and restore `erc-compat.el' sooner rather than later (in a day or two)
> and do what we already used to for ERC in the past anyway.

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic