From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next emacs version? Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <88C42498-ADC0-45DA-B6AC-698F07AACCA2@raeburn.org> References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com><83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org><83d3z0i3nu.fsf@gnu.org><911BA1D06CEB4306924D0069BA2D3DFF@us.oracle.com><83bpeki18a.fsf@gnu.org><83aau4hv38.fsf@gnu.org><0E10B96B5C814EE8B95B57972F13E189@us.oracle.com> <5E984B3C-4B86-4FA6-8675-4C8501CC2285@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269063301 19495 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2010 05:35:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 06:34:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsrKq-0008Tr-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:34:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsrKq-0007fI-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsrI0-0006h2-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57232 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsrHy-0006gg-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsrHw-0006Bd-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:50689 helo=raeburn.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsrHp-0006B6-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:56 -0400 Original-Received: from squish.raeburn.org (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o2K5VSJ1024595; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:31:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122343 Archived-At: BTW... On Mar 19, 2010, at 23:38, Drew Adams wrote: > But sometimes (esp. if the release cycle is long) I do make changes = (esp. if > minor) that allow my code to keep working with the latest development = version. > That's sometimes easy when it concerns a new var or fn (but not arity = change > etc. for a fn). advice.el has code for figuring out the arg list of a function, so you = can check arity changes. Though, the easiest way may turn out to be = loading advice and calling ad-arglist.... Ken=