Bastien Guerry <b...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Ihor, > > Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > >> I have recently been contacted by the current compat.el maintainer >> asking if we are willing to adapt compat.el in Org. > > Very nice! > >> WDYT? > > As long as we keep our promise in terms of backward compatibility with > older Emacs versions, I'm all for it.
I would agree. I would also add that even with the use of this package, I don't think we should use it to increase the number of versions we support as support is not as simple as dropping in a compatibility library. These libraries come with a cost. Often, compatibility code does not perform as well and/or is much more complicated and more likely to have bugs. The more a version of emacs needs to rely on this library to run org-mode, the higher the likelihood performance will be degraded or unexpected new bugs are found. So, use the library, but keep the existing policy of officially supporting only the previous two major releases. If org does work with even older versions, that is great, but not supported.
