From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [MAINTENANCE] Do we have any backwards-compatibility policy for third-party packages?
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 14:24:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mt7uwrf7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6y3s731.fsf@localhost>
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I guess we are limited by what the packages we rely on support. For
>> example, if geiser doesn't support Emacs 26 but org is supposed to,
>> there isn't much we can do. We cannot afford to fork geiser and modify
>> it to add the support and even if we provided a patch to add the support
>> to the geiser project, they may not merge it.
>>
>> Best we can do is best effort and reflect this limitation in the manual
>> where we stipulate what our backwards compatibility policy is.
>
> Ok. Here are the tentative patches for Org manual and WORG maintenance
> page.
>
No objections from me. Just based on reading the patches, they appear to
clarify our support policy and therefore should be helpful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-11 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 3:41 [MAINTENANCE] Do we have any backwards-compatibility policy for third-party packages? Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-16 22:33 ` Tim Cross
2022-11-17 12:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-17 23:38 ` Tim Cross
2022-12-10 13:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-11 3:24 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2022-12-18 12:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-11 10:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
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