From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: making xref.el a core ELPA package Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:32:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a7ktqqx7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <9215183d-0a44-88b5-5b3c-d0da31f749ad@yandex.ru> <65bd653b-bc09-035b-5f5e-4b7b32fe9c0e@yandex.ru> <87efa2hmv4.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2e294zc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <874layhclj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546007604 4983 195.159.176.226 (28 Dec 2018 14:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:33:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 28 15:33:20 2018 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 1gctCS-0001Bm-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:33:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gctEY-0005pj-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gctD7-0005jq-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gctBW-0004lL-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54196 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gctBR-0004eK-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gct9E-0005FB-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:30:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lmabR0XjbJo2qZltF3LFuQUBv2o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:232017 Archived-At: >> Sure, you could add some conditionals to support older versions. Very much so. > It's kinda lame to do this in a file that is in Emacs core, We have lots of that in Emacs's own files, since many of Emacs's packages are also distributed outside (e.g. cc-mode, Tramp, ...). It's not lame, Stefan