From: Kevin Vigouroux via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pcase map binding form expansion failure on Emacs 27 only
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:20:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmtixobn.fsf@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmti52ez.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:48:36 -0500")
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
> So there seems to be a discrepancy between the version of the library
> returned by `locate-library' and the version of the activated package,
> and the version *actually* loaded into Emacs. Installing newer versions
> of core libraries from ELPA doesn't seem to work, or at least not
> reliably, on Emacs 27. But on Emacs 26.3 and Emacs 28.0.50, it seems to
> work--for me, anyway.
>
> Is this a bug in Emacs 27, or am I misunderstanding something? I
> thought the point of having newer versions of these core libs on ELPA
> was that they could be used in older--or current--Emacs versions, but
> this doesn't seem to be working reliably.
>
You should file a bug report. It is unclear if a built-in package should
be updated because there are potentially competing indications (or
contradictory).
Look at bug#40971: Updating built-in packages that seq depends on is
broken due to a bug in package.el
--
Best regards,
Kevin Vigouroux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-09 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 12:08 pcase map binding form expansion failure on Emacs 27 only Adam Porter
2021-09-07 16:44 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-07 23:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-08 11:58 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-08 5:43 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-08 13:07 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-08 14:28 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-08 16:47 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-08 18:48 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-09 6:20 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2021-09-10 18:35 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Emacs development discussions.
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87pmtixobn.fsf@laposte.net \
--to=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=ke.vigouroux@laposte.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).