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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: removal of `string-to-sequence'
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:09:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1uhfemae.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA920B50CCEB43A3A77538578688CB8A@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 2 Oct 2012 21:59:03 -0700")

> I byte-compile my code in Emacs 20 and use the result in 20 and later
> releases.  Until now (the Windows binary that I picked up today), that
> has never been a problem.

We do not even try to be backward compatible with code written for
Emacs-21 (since all the features "obsolete since Emacs<22" are removed
from the trunk, except for time-to-seconds).
Byte-compiled or not doesn't make much of a difference in this respect.


        Stefan



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-03  4:59 removal of `string-to-sequence' Drew Adams
2012-10-03  7:48 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-03 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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