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RE: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ? |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:15:06 -0700 |
> > I am looking for a good documentation on best practices for an
> > emacs package maintainer.
> >
> > I want packages I am maintaining to be still supported for old
> > emacsen from, say, 19.x to latest possible (including xemacs).
>
> A totally fresh example hitted me earlier today: old-style backquotes.
> My package contains lots of them, I can easily rewrite them using the
> new style but I have to (I want to) be sure it could work with emacs <
> 19.29 (or so).
>
> Wrapping something like:
> (if (and (> emacs-major-version 19)
> (> emacs-minor-version 29))
> (defmacro my-modern-macro...)
> (defmacro my-old-style-macro))
>
> Is that the best way ?
Dunno what the best way is.
But aren't old-style backquotes still supported? I thought the problem was the
other way around, that new-style backquotes are not supported in older releases.
(That's just what I would have expected - haven't checked anything.)
If I'm right about this, then just keep your old-style backquotes. It just means
a few additional parentheses. ;-)
- RE: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?, (continued)
Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?, Xavier MAILLARD, 2009/06/01
RE: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?,
Drew Adams <=
Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?, Bastien, 2009/06/01
Re: Readings for an emacs package maintainer ?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/06/01