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 20:20:04 -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 1459815641 7515 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2016 00:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 00:20:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 02:20:26 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 1anEjG-0005g4-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anEjF-0007wd-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anEjB-0007uD-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anEj8-0001Yc-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anEj7-0001XU-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anEj3-0005ZG-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:20:09 +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 ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:20:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-138-79.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:20:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:akd2PhQ9Z+yF2hkh7cJk+Vvvs48= 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:202726 Archived-At: >> Should-work-in: Emacsā‰„23 > I like it, but I assumed that was off the table, since these files are > maintained outside Emacs. :-) Not all of them are. Some are maintained inside Emacs but also released separately. Others are maintained both inside and outside. And some are primarily maintained outside. But in either case, we can install local changes (and hope to see them integrated in the external upstream source if any). >> For multifile packages, we could put that pseudo-header only in the >> main file. > Well... then this no longer can be automated. Of course it can. We have the "Package:" pseudo header that lets us find the main file automatically. Stefan