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From: Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: Matt Huszagh <huszaghmatt@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Supported Emacs version
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:04:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rxg7gxm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsrolmn9.fsf@gnu.org>

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Hi Bastien,

> Org is made of many areas and partial backward-compatibility can
> still be useful.  When people report compatibility problems with
> Emacs <26, we can guide them so that they enhance org-compat.el.
>
> It is not because we don’t promise compatibility for Emacs < 26
> that we should prevent backward-compatibility for Emacs < 26, and
> the all-or-nothing approach would actually prevent it.
>
> I hope this is convincing enough :)

It’s not the choice I’d make, but what matters more is that I now better
appreciate/understand the motivation for leaving those bit in.

Thanks for discussing this a bit :)

All the best,
Timothy

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-22  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-21 18:41 [PATCH] Fix window width when line numbers present Matt Huszagh
2021-11-21 19:14 ` Timothy
2021-11-21 21:08   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-11-21 21:14     ` Matt Huszagh
2021-11-21 21:16       ` Bastien
2021-11-21 21:22         ` Matt Huszagh
2021-11-22  5:14           ` Bastien
2021-11-22  5:31             ` Timothy
2021-11-22  5:44               ` Bastien
2021-11-22  5:51                 ` Supported Emacs version (was: [PATCH] Fix window width when line numbers present) Timothy
2021-11-22  6:05                   ` Supported Emacs version Bastien
2021-11-22  6:12                     ` Timothy
2021-11-22  6:39                       ` Bastien
2021-11-22  8:04                         ` Timothy [this message]
2021-11-22 10:26                           ` Bastien
2021-11-22 11:55                 ` [PATCH] Fix window width when line numbers present Ihor Radchenko
2021-11-22 12:40                   ` Tim Cross
2021-11-23  5:59                   ` Bastien
2021-11-23  7:05                     ` Tim Cross
2021-11-22  3:16     ` Timothy
2021-11-21 19:19 ` Timothy

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