From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:13:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50906010213n5788ab19l398549df69a10280@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k53wh16c.wl%xma@gnu.org>
Maybe look in the packages Drew develpe and maintain?
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a good documentation on best practices for an
> emacs package maintainer.
>
> I want packages I am maintaining to be still supported for old
> emacsen from, say, 19.x to latest possible (including xemacs).
>
> Currently, the big problems for me is to keep on using old
> functions or have a common rule to define my macros.
>
> What do you, emacs developers, do in order to have the larger
> backward compatibility spectrum ?
>
> I was thinking about a package-compat.el but I do not know how
> well it will work with macros defined here at compile time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Xavier
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 9:13 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 [this message]
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
2009-06-01 17:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-01 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-01 22:01 ` Leo
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