From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
66554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:49:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xzpvpo0.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmm0csN0fD4=o9EaoafYWEsnAFqECZD-ncUhoqhQVZin0Q@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:34:32 -0800")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>>> If you want to label the `most-positive-fixnum` as a hack, I guess
>>> that's OK but then the comment should clarify what it's referring to.
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I assume that Philip considers the autoload a hack.
>> In this thread we discussed various alternatives to approach this
>> problem, e.g., the package version regexp (another hack), or my naive
>> idea of simply writing 29.1.9999 in the compat.el package header (yet
>> another hack).
>
> IMHO, the "naive" (why naive?) number 9999 is more readable, and in
> practice will be the same as using most-positive-fixnum. So I'd just
> use that.
We can also use 1.0e+INF, unless there is a reason to avoid non-fixnums
in version strings?
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2023-10-15 9:35 bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-10 22:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 5:27 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 7:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 8:06 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 17:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 17:58 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 19:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 20:24 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-11 20:43 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 21:01 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 16:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 18:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 18:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 22:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-13 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-13 12:23 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 19:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-18 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 20:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-19 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-19 6:52 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2024-01-19 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-19 6:57 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-19 16:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-19 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-24 6:23 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-26 7:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-26 10:42 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-26 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-01 15:53 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-02 8:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-02 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 19:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 19:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-07 17:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-07 17:31 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-07 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 7:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-08 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 10:47 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 16:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-10 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 16:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-10 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 17:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 17:47 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-10 18:14 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-10 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-11 21:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-18 20:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-19 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-18 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 20:41 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-18 23:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-19 5:49 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2024-01-19 6:42 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 20:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-11 20:40 ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 7:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-11 19:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 20:07 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-12 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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