Re: Add zuul.el package to ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic]

Niklas Eklund <niklas.eklund@posteo.net> writes:

>>>  (require 'ansi-color)
>>>  (require 'comint)
>>> +(require 'compat)
>>> +(require 'compat-27)
>>> +(require 'compat-28)
>>
>> These two require statements aren't required, unless you depend on some
>> function that has been updated between versions (e.g. assoc used to only
>> take two arguments, and now takes 3, so to avoid overriding the old call
>> compat provides a prefixed alternative "compat-assoc").
>
> Alright, so only (require 'compat) then, and it will figure out that it
> needs functions from compat-27 or compat-28 internally?

No, loading compat will ensure that all missing definitions are loaded,
and compat-NM only loads prefixed definitions.