From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:37:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyaycda3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANbX365tyVbVtNG=YSbUOogvMbJuzxcV4PM9uZHA8E0L8K4PBA@mail.gmail.com>
Cleaning up some CCs.
Lennart Borgman writes:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 13:38, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > FWIW, I agree with Juanma here: compatibility functions should live
> > where they are needed, i.e. in external packages.
>
> For larger well maintained packages that is no big problem. However
> for small packages/single elisp files it is worse. (We might have an
> example here where the compatibility function is in error and needs to
> be replaced.)
The package you think you want already exists, it's called APEL (A
Portable Emacs Library). I believe Morioka-san et al still maintain
it. It has a number of serious design restrictions (most important,
it makes decisions about which compatibility functions to provide at
compile-time, for efficiency, so you need a copy for pretty much every
Emacs you run).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 6:12 Fwd: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete Andreas Röhler
2011-07-06 7:09 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-06 8:54 ` Bastien
2011-07-06 18:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-06 18:33 ` Bastien
2011-07-06 22:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-06 23:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-06 23:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 23:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-06 23:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-06 23:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-07 0:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-07 0:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-07 0:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-07 0:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-07 0:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-07 11:38 ` Bastien
2011-07-07 11:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-07 15:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2011-07-06 11:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-07 0:06 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-07 6:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-07 11:36 ` Bastien
2011-07-07 12:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-07 13:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-08 9:57 ` Bastien
2011-07-07 20:10 ` Fwd: " Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 2:52 ` Tim Cross
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