bug#46610: Interactive mode tagging for python.el navigation functions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 18.02.2021 16:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > python.el is distributed as "core" package through GNU ELPA and declared
> > compatibility up to Emacs 24.1.
> >
> > So I don't think you can use the new 'interactive' syntax there.
> So packages on ELPA are allowed to be ahead of those in core, but not
> vice versa?  Is that really the intent that we allow them to diverge,
> but only in one direction?

What do you mean by "ahead"? Have a newer version of the package in 
'master' and some other in ELPA?

Then we (someone? who?) either have to maintain both version, or accept 
that ELPA and all users of Emacs 24-27 won't get any subsequent updates 
to python.el, including support for newer Python syntax, etc.

Either approach can work in ELPA, but our "ELPA core" scheme aims to 
make new features available to as many users as feasible, while limiting 
the extra support effort required.