Re: Stability of project.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> Hi Philip,
>
> On 10/07/2023 21:53, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>> The commentary section for project.el still begins with
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; NOTE: The project API is still experimental and can change in major,
>> ;; backward-incompatible ways.  Everyone is encouraged to try it, and
>> ;; report to us any problems or use cases we hadn't anticipated, by
>> ;; sending an email to emacs-devel, or `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> Is this still true, or would it be warranted to remove it just like
>> we
>> did for Xref a few years ago (9a15694a45), perhaps even in time for
>> Emacs 29?
>
> I think that's a good idea. Even if there still some less-than-ideal
> bits, we need to maintain it backward-compatibly, given the age.

Great.  Should the major version number also be bumped?

> And documentation-only changes should still be good for Emacs 29.

Eli, what do you say?