From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:09:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh2dra15.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh2exact.fsf@berkeley.edu> (Richard Lawrence's message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:05:38 -0800")
Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Great, so should Org-mode require cl-lib and stop supporting the
>>> following functions?
>>
>> I guess so. But I'm unclear yet whether this removes compatibility
>> with older Emacsen. I'll check this.
>
> I believe it does remove compatibility with anything pre-24.0. At
> least, there is no cl-lib in GNU Emacs 23.4.1, which is the version
> currently in Debian stable.
>
With cl-lib installable as a library through ELPA, would requiring it as
a dependency be acceptable? I suppose Org-mode doesn't currently have
any dependencies, so it might not be worth adding one just to remove
some redundant functions.
>
> I am one small voice, but as a user who prefers Debian stable but also
> the maint branch of Org, I'd request that you avoid a hard dependency on
> cl-lib for a while longer, maybe at least until Emacs 24 is the default
> in major distro's package systems?
>
I agree it would be bad to lose compatibility of the master branch with
older Emacsen.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
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Eric Schulte
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-07 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 13:50 Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint) Bastien
2014-01-21 19:16 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-21 19:25 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 19:30 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 19:35 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-21 23:39 ` Bastien
2014-01-22 7:52 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-25 7:58 ` Achim Gratz
2014-02-26 19:25 ` Achim Gratz
2014-02-26 23:23 ` Eric Schulte
2014-03-01 8:06 ` Bastien
2014-03-01 9:10 ` Achim Gratz
2014-03-01 12:53 ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-03 3:03 ` Eric Schulte
2014-03-05 1:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-03-05 3:20 ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-06 17:00 ` Eric Schulte
2014-03-07 7:26 ` Bastien
2014-03-07 16:05 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-03-07 21:09 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2014-03-08 4:05 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-03-13 14:55 ` Bastien
2014-03-13 16:28 ` Richard Lawrence
2014-03-21 8:08 ` Bastien
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