From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:24:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv92twxbd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czp2c6qd.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:02:02 +0200")
> The point here is to not to have any separate namespace, so that you can
> just can put core packages into ELPA without doing any rewrites.
> What's the concrete risk here?
I think in practice it's usually not a problem, but I'd be surprised if
there aren't counter examples. So for a library that wants to do it in
a somewhat predictable/systematic way, I think it's much simple to have
all the definitions in a specific namespace (like `compat28-`), and then
it's a small matter of have a trivial `compat28.el` library that comes
with Emacs-28 which has a bunch of `defalias`.
The main advantage is that we then don't need to assess the possible
risks at all, so we're free to think about the things that actually matter.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 19:24 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 [this message]
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
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
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