From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:37:40 +0900 Message-ID: <87tyaycda3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4E13FCE4.8080309@easy-emacs.de> <871uy3lrfy.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjqie2xt.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310053395 7708 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 15:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 17:43:11 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 1QeqjO-0004Gc-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeqjN-0006N3-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeqeC-00055z-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeqeA-0001Ys-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:49642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeqe9-0001Xv-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987AF3FA071E; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:37:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E090D1A2628; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:37:40 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" cd1f8c4e81cd XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 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:141734 Archived-At: Cleaning up some CCs. Lennart Borgman writes: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 13:38, Bastien 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).