From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Emacs version compatibility
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:59:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24nv9zk39.fsf@ibookg4-c2.pc.gwdg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k445ptt5.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:40:06 +0100")
Reiner Steib writes:
> On Wed, Feb 01 2012, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> I think Ma Gnus should drop Emacs 22 compatibility, and it should also
>> drop non-Mule XEmacs compatibility.
>
> Fine with me. Although dropping Emacs 22 probably doesn't help too
> much as long as you support XEmacs 21.4.
Indeed. The current problem regarding `delete-directory' is already an
example for that (at least Emacs22 warns during compilation, which
Xemacs 21.4 for some reason does not with our setup...).
>> More controversially :-), I think 真 Gnus should also stop defining
>> compatibility functions like `gnus-mark-active-p', and instead just
>> start maintaining a `gnus-compat.el' library that would define functions
>> like `mark-active-p' for Emacsen that don't define them.
>
> Please don't. It violates the Emacs coding guidelines. Packages that
> have gone that road have broken other packages in the past.
> E.g. color-scheme defined `replace-in-string´[1] which broke Gnus and
> emacs-jabber.
Agreed. I know it's tempting, but please don't do that; it *will* haunt
you later. The only solution is to radically drop support for older
(X)Emacs versions and live with it. Others can provide a compat package
if they want to, but do not put it in Gnus itself.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 13:15 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-01 13:37 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-01 18:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-01 19:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 7:40 ` Reiner Steib
2012-02-02 8:51 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-02 8:59 ` David Engster [this message]
2012-02-02 9:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 10:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-02 10:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 12:26 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-02 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 13:02 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-02 13:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 13:39 ` Michael Albinus
2012-02-02 13:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-02 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-02 13:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
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