bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core

[Philip Kaludercic]

Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> The addition cab done procedurally, as in
>>>
>>>     ;;;;####autoload (push (list 'compat emacs-major-version
>>> emacs-minor-version) package--builtin-versions)
>>
>> If this work, I like this idea a lot!  I'll test it out to see if this
>> could simplify things.
>
> Philip, could we push (list 'compat emacs-major-version
> emacs-minor-version most-positive-fixnum)? Wouldn't this solve the two
> problems we have - no manual version bump and Compat could keep its
> current version scheme?

Yes, I just tried it out and it works (and it doesn't work the way we
want it to without `most-positive-fixnum'):

0001-Add-the-public-API-of-Compat-to-the-core.patch
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