Re: Comment in verilog-mode.el about supported versions

[Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Wilson Snyder wrote:

> Verilog-mode is a bit unique.  It's not just a programming
> mode that is used inside Emacs, but a computer aided design
> tool that extends the Verilog language, relied on in most
> every chip design company, and often run as a standalone
> tool from Emacs batch.
>
> Thus there are often important bugs which need to be fixed
> back into what would otherwise be considered "old" Emacs
> versions. cc-mode and like doesn't have this issue.
>
> Also because of this, verilog-mode.el is often part of the
> source code control system of design environments, which
> need to run regardless that different users and systems may
> have different Emacs versions installed.
>
> Users often upgrade verilog-mode.el themselves, and so
> having a single file, that they can easily install and know
> will work, no matter their version of Emacs, is critical.
>
> Perhaps this path is more development work (though due to
> version maintenance effort I'd argue that). But, I don't see
> any way in which splitting versions nor splitting files
> would help the users.
>
> Anyhow, regardless of these choices, new Emacs features are
> made available.  By no means is the least common denominator
> all that is supported.
>
> -Wilson

Understood.
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation.

Tino