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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
To: Jai Flack <jflack@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Package Requiring a Commit?
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 15:59:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fslpv4fn.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fslp7c97.fsf@posteo.net> (Jai Flack's message of "Wed, 04 May 2022 11:44:52 +0000")

On 04/05/2022 11:44 +0000, Jai Flack wrote:

> Greetings Emacs Developers,
>
> Is there a preferred way for a package to Package-Requires on an Emacs
> version more recent than the latest release? The context for this my
> package isearch-olc [1] which I would like to finish testing and submit
> for inclusion in GNU ELPA soon, however it requires
> lazy-count-update-hook which was only introduced in a recent-ish commit.
>
> Is the preferred solution to check for special-variable-p and error
> (possibly message on load and error on mode enable) if it hasn't been
> defined yet?

This should work, just use next version:

;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "29"))

Then people running Emacs which was built recently from master will be
able to install your package, because they're "already on 29".

Filipp



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-04 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-04 11:44 Package Requiring a Commit? Jai Flack
2022-05-04 12:59 ` Filipp Gunbin [this message]
2022-05-05  7:46   ` Jai Flack
2022-05-05  8:37     ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-05 14:40       ` Jai Flack
2022-05-05 13:43     ` Filipp Gunbin

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