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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:28:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz1tvnpb7lk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1534757322.75605.1479728696.2BF2BB66@webmail.messagingengine.com

On Mon 20 Aug 2018, Jostein Kjønigsen wrote:
> As I've mentioned in another reply on this subject, decoupling cc-mode
> releases from Emacs-releases will make it harder for third-party major-
> modes deriving from cc-mode to maintain compatibility when cc-mode
> introduces breaking changes.
> Currently we can inspect "cc-mode version" by checking emacs-version,
> and dispatching compatible code based on that.

Checking version numbers is the wrong approach for feature detection,
and should only be a last resort if checking behaviour is not practical.

If an ELPA package results in more frequent updates to cc-mode then
third party extension authors will simply have to adapt to a slightly
faster release cadence.

    AndyM




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-06 20:24 Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-11 14:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-08-12  0:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-19 11:16   ` Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-19 12:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-20  3:03       ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-20  8:38         ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-20  9:28           ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-08-20 10:51             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-20 11:28             ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2018-08-20 17:54               ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-08-20 19:45                 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-22 12:46                   ` Noam Postavsky

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