unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:16:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgs5wp5r.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm515CyRyUYp1iSRLwE9LFkgXZSRDmf0QDP1Ot8roO31UEg@mail.gmail.com> ("João Távora"'s message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:08:32 +0100")

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> Right.  And so if this is the goal (and given that I also agree to
> "start slow"), why not have more :core ELPA packages?
> Say subr-x.el, as an example.  It has no dependencies.  Why
> not make it a :core package right now?

If you overwrite the subr-x functions from, say, Emacs 25.1 with the
ones in Emacs 28, you'll likely end up with an Emacs that doesn't work.

(And we certainly don't want to take on the maintenance burden of
writing subr-x in such a way that it's backwards-compatible.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21 22:16 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
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 [this message]
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

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=87zgs5wp5r.fsf@gnus.org \
    --to=larsi@gnus.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=joaotavora@gmail.com \
    --cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=philipk@posteo.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).