From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:03:04 +0800 Message-ID: <877h2ridev.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ipmcgjot.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83lir89gne.fsf@gnu.org> <87aa7ogfo3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwhffv37.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322028201 26180 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 06:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:03:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 07:03:17 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 1RT5vR-0002vB-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:03:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT5vQ-0003kb-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT5vN-0003kR-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT5vM-0003Cq-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT5vM-0003Cm-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.19.127] (port=50843 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT5vL-000708-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fwhffv37.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:09:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:146170 Archived-At: 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. Compatibility code is OK for big packages like Tramp and Gnus, especially those developed independently or semi-independently of Emacs. But for stuff like cfengine.el, it's better to just track the Emacs version, I think.