Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:00:16 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>>  João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
>> 
>> > Can symbol-renaming help here, perhaps?  I believe João is trying to
>> > get it ready in time for Emacs 28.
>> 
>> Going by my proposal, the library does nothing when loaded in Emacs
>> 28.1, because it is already compatible to itself. No need for an extra
>> layer. It is only of interest to older versions, and they won't be able
>> to make use of symbol-renaming.
>
> Why it is a problem for older versions to load symbol-renaming as
> well?

My understanding was that this would depend on Emacs 28, but if not then
I retract my comment.

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        Philip Kaludercic