Lars Ingebrigtsen <
larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Mauro Aranda <
maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> With this patch, custom-menu-filter wouldn't be used anymore in Custom,
>> but I've found that the jdee package uses it. Another concern is that
>> there might be 3rd party code that assumes these custom menus are
>> in the simplified menu format, and add stuff to the list, or some other stuff.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what to do about it.
>
> Is there a way to make this backwards-compatible? For instance, by
> introducing a new name for the new menu stuff, and having a
> compatibility shim for the old custom menus?
>
> I say this without having looked at the code closely, so I'm kinda
> uninformed here.
I attach a more conservative patch. It could get more conservative (and
more hacky at the same time), but maybe this one is enough.