From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs Date: 18 Apr 2002 22:54:43 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuv55cyk.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200204170928.g3H9SVb27019@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200204171001.g3HA1hh27230@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019138227 20005 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 13:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16yCPL-0005CY-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yCiY-0001s2-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:16:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yCPM-0005WT-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yCOd-0005PO-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-242.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.242] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16yCOa-0006ya-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:56:20 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BA473012; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 22:54:43 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2726 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2726 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > Well, I was wondering if it was possible to get XEmacs to adopt it > > as well ;-) > > That would break backward compatibility, which is fairly important in > this case because I've already changed the interface once. (But I've > kept the compatibility with the old interface.) Why would this matter? All existing user code would continue to work, and if an independent package author wanted to maintain compatibility with old versions of xemacs, he could just not use the new feature... [Clearly all internal code can do whatever it wants.] -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche