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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up further compat code
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r3elnsx6.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvinzx1rx3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:35:58 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> No, please don't.  If you want to keep that data, keep it in the
> affected files, not in a separate file.
>
> How 'bout a pseudo-header like
>
>    Should-work-in: Emacs-trunk
>
> This way it can also be used for other cases such as
>
>    Should-work-in: XEmacs
>
> or
>
>    Should-work-in: Emacs≥23

I like it, but I assumed that was off the table, since these files are
maintained outside Emacs.  :-)  If we can do janitorial changes to files
to clarify that we shouldn't do janitorial changes in them, then things
get easier to handle.

> For multifile packages, we could put that pseudo-header only in the
> main file.

Well...  then this no longer can be automated.  I'd really like to have
a mode line thing stating the maintainability status of the file when
doing cleanups...

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-03 16:29 Cleaning up further compat code Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-03 16:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-03 19:09   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-03 23:21     ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 16:54 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-04  7:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04  7:31   ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-04  7:56     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 12:35   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-04 15:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 18:13     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-05  0:20       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-06 11:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-05  0:16 ` Xue Fuqiao

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