Re: Proposal: Forwards-Compatibility Library for Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> Right.  And so if this is the goal (and given that I also agree to
> "start slow"), why not have more :core ELPA packages?
> Say subr-x.el, as an example.  It has no dependencies.  Why
> not make it a :core package right now?

If you overwrite the subr-x functions from, say, Emacs 25.1 with the
ones in Emacs 28, you'll likely end up with an Emacs that doesn't work.

(And we certainly don't want to take on the maintenance burden of
writing subr-x in such a way that it's backwards-compatible.)

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