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Re: [PATCH] Delete some Emacs 24 compat code


From: Tom Gillespie
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete some Emacs 24 compat code
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 17:59:29 -0700

> Please, keep ";; Package-Requires: " version in org.el consistent with
> such statement (Should it be updated for the bugfix branch as well?).

Unfortunately it is not clear that this is the right thing to do because
nearly every feature of org may work on old versions. Should we put
users through the pain of having to fight the metadata saying that they
can't run org on an old version of emacs when only a tiny subfeature
may or may not be broken? For example, I can load the current
version of org and go through most of my normal workflows without
issue on 25.

Package-Requires does not mean what it says, what it actually means
is "actively does not work on any versions not specified" which is not
true if we were to say >=26 and would make users' of older versions
of emacs lives harder. What this means is that we could say >=25
(which is what org.el current has by listing 25.1) because it is possible
to load current versions of org-mode on 25 but not on 24 (which works
only at 9.4.6 at 652430128896e690dc6ef2a83891a1209094b3da).



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