From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:26 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8739dfezc1.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ipmcgjot.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83lir89gne.fsf@gnu.org> <87aa7ogfo3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwhffv37.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877h2ridev.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322055366 16194 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 13:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:36:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 14:36:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzU-0008QP-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:35:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzU-0007nB-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzN-0007mm-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzI-0000jG-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzI-0000j4-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzG-0008Im-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:35:42 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:35:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OgKz9AcXK9XUDQHItyYswaox5bc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146175 Archived-At: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:03:04 +0800 Chong Yidong wrote: CY> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>>> That's a good way, but I don't know if the maintainers would mind, and SM> Which maintainers? >> >> The Emacs maintainers. I mean I don't know if you want to have >> fallbacks like that in the Emacs 24 code, since obviously prog-mode >> exists there. CY> Compatibility code is OK for big packages like Tramp and Gnus, CY> especially those developed independently or semi-independently of Emacs. CY> But for stuff like cfengine.el, it's better to just track the Emacs CY> version, I think. I was planning on making the change in the Emacs version so it's in sync with the other one (which lives in the cfengine SVN trunk under contrib/). Do you mean you would rather have two versions? Ted