From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaning up further compat code Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:35:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459773402 29562 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2016 12:36:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:36:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 14:36:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1an3k9-0000fL-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an3k9-0003VS-1d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an3jq-0003Sb-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an3jl-0001og-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1an3jl-0001oc-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1an3ji-0000Tl-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:36:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-138-79.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.138.79]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:36:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-138-79.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:36:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-138-79.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KjCRdPtNj81Sm1rM9dSDo+7j6CE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:202679 Archived-At: > From the non-response here I'm assuming the answer is "no". Would it be > an idea to create such a file? That way it would be easier to know No, please don't. If you want to keep that data, keep it in the affected files, not in a separate file. How 'bout a pseudo-header like Should-work-in: Emacs-trunk This way it can also be used for other cases such as Should-work-in: XEmacs or Should-work-in: Emacs≥23 For multifile packages, we could put that pseudo-header only in the main file. And arguably, it would be good to associate a date with this info, like Should-work-in: Emacs≥20 (Nov 2006) so as to get some vague idea of whether maybe it's time to update the "Should-work-in". Stefan PS: I recently bumped into: ((and (not (featurep 'xemacs)) (string-equal "19" (substring emacs-version 0 2)) (or window-system (fboundp 'tmm-menubar))) ; 19.30 - Will autoload if necessary Does AUCTeX really still care about Emacs-19.30?