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Philip Kaludercic writes:

> Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> On this topic, I've briefly seen philipk's proposal for `compat.el' on
>> emacs-devel, but I'm not yet sure if it's meant to tend to the needs
>> of individual packages like ERC and add funs/vars on request.  So for
>> ERC's purposes it might be better to revive and use `erc-compat.el'.
>
> It certainly could, the question is only if the functionality of a 300+
> line file should be copied into a general-purpose compatibility library.

By "300+ line file" you mean `iso8601.el'?  If so, I would indeed not
expect `compat.el' to duplicate all of that.  However, I wonder if
`compat.el' may be able to house some funs/vars needed to port
`iso8601.el' to older Emacsen?  I haven't had a close look at it, nor
at the time-related changes in Emacs 27, to know if this would be
doable in a reasonable way.  Perhaps Lars might.