Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I don't mind, but it sounds like the details of adding compat.el to
>> core are not yet clear to all, and are still being discussed.
>
> OK, thanks.  There's no rush here, I think.  I hope that people will
> speak up so that we can get a handle on those details.
>
>> Also, it sounds like we would need to modify compat.el for every
>> release or something? if so, this should be in make-tarball.txt.
>>
>> It might be also a good idea to mention this in the ELisp manual
>> somewhere.
>
> Philip, could you take a look at this and amend the patch accordingly?
> Thanks in advance.

This would integrate my previous two suggestions: