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: Interactive hat. Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090323223703.GA5650@muc.de> <20090324135210.GA4657@muc.de> <20090325101650.GA1487@muc.de> <20090325141935.GC1487@muc.de> <20090326124453.GC3358@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238075470 7997 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 13:51:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 14:52:27 2009 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 4.50) id 1Lmq03-0002sj-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:52:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lmpyg-0008Rs-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lmpyb-0008Rd-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmpyX-0008RQ-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53472 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmpyW-0008RN-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:51232) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmpyW-0007lP-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgEAKsky0lFxIfy/2dsb2JhbACBUNIUg3YGhHA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,426,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35697406" Original-Received: from 69-196-135-242.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.135.242]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 26 Mar 2009 09:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 77F547F74; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:50:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20090326124453.GC3358@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:44:53 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:109854 Archived-At: > If we're going to be keeping interactive-hat, I think we definitely need > some sort of warning to package maintainers to be careful with it, and we > should offer them a recipe for maintaining compatibility. I think you're blinded by your hatred of this (mis)feature. It has nothing particularly more special than any other new feature we introduced. Yes, if people use it, they get backward compatibility problems. So what? Stefan