From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws7worgg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k53wh16c.wl%xma@gnu.org> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:18:35 +0200")
Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
> What do you, emacs developers, do in order to have the larger
> backward compatibility spectrum ?
I'm under the impression that most developers only worry about backward
compatibility when users complain. Which is a fairly wise way of being
lazy, no?
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 7:18 Readings for an emacs package maintainer ? Xavier Maillard
2009-06-01 9:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-01 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 18:56 ` Reiner Steib
2009-06-01 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-01 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 12:43 ` Xavier MAILLARD
2009-06-01 14:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-02 2:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-02 2:36 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-02 12:02 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-02 14:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-01 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 16:21 ` Bastien [this message]
2009-06-01 17:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-01 22:01 ` Leo
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