From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment in verilog-mode.el about supported versions Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h9609m0l.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482152971 15565 195.159.176.226 (19 Dec 2016 13:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers , Tino Calancha , wsnyder@wsnyder.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 14:09:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cIxh0-0003Rj-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:09:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIxh5-0001Wv-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIxgr-0001Um-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIxgp-0000AT-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::243]:36036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIxgp-00009N-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-x243.google.com with SMTP id u15so19433424oie.3 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:09:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=1WnUgnZAv3Sbea2r10tMYNaQBgEH8sBEnQirfs23O4g=; b=fqEq4rAmzBEbzDU8IW7Wv0q1CLy9e2orKiYT1Hb/B2bippa2nAwJaxW5BiN3sokuCA OF8vO7pbA4MHdQju4eZdNFM6XjVfpjUMPLTXD0ysUkyXRkKdxlJ937J1TKhTkL8a5gQw 0IrHMyt5dMNHHo3GKh5i1EJxSkvDZVWjBn0dXw8VXznx90y2KXwJP4ebf2DyR+3B8W4t 1cda4Jx/HYQ0lgBPdV8JLEtqVbm6l7KQaVUkY0k6widxHlYvOoBKz3Gc7YO2w4UISwD9 P2vA+fZSJpcJZ0qPUJFmabZUITn1xek+26Z3VS+BJclLmKAn7VSt3RWzs7QJTONtLkRe vQbw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=1WnUgnZAv3Sbea2r10tMYNaQBgEH8sBEnQirfs23O4g=; b=fy1vRF8fX45oU09pwFJE03fBHzeZE5flo0zIInFxWMZ4HUDImrSqFL2wGitgipROyo ho48fc3pVHIY5VxAvr0x0Og5u0DUupmjXddArlu0Z6n+iMlXXDLV+z4xdLNxf0KHunD2 xcbMflchQmGd5f9jjYcmpDlgfq5jUeMPAvjLlpcGuYv38/ucVB1p8JVrMTD8nmQB8PB2 HjFUNrcSdNjdC7zqnOY9XpdEwl7J0U+w50zVLETTF2auY7bQyQrFUqW0MaCPygqxjF/R oM4B2Kk8VxDVUm1KrnB0qxnLk5EKONmSstPRNYJiR3EqSQLPAWTQV4zTfKiBIpE3Lm9y QZOA== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC00t7mC26aNK7vGEqRqu+n38O7ox9UCSSaODEg4SRmXbpeBv45AWkV+2qgpl2f1PpZH0Et5C6XSA83xdZA== X-Received: by 10.157.18.181 with SMTP id g50mr9633060otg.274.1482152953793; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:09:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.157.35.87 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:09:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: hJIpuVKnFpuzKmgsmi-qsi0K1MM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::243 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210626 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote: > Copying Wilson Snyder. > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016, 5:19 PM Tino Calancha wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> in the comentary of >> lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el >> you can find following comment: >> ;; This code supports Emacs 21.1 and later >> ;; And XEmacs 21.1 and later >> ;; Please do not make changes that break Emacs 21. Thanks! >> >> I could understand this comment in a version of this file >> elsewhere, e.g. ELPA, but not in the built-in version in Emacs. >> Why is this comment needed? >> Is it OK to drop from the master branch this kind of comments? This reminds me, I posted a patch to fix a bug in verilog-mode, but left it unapplied because I wasn't sure about backwards compatibility: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23842#62