GNU bug report logs - #19564
24.4; eieio backward compatibility

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 19564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 19564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19564: 24.4; eieio backward compatibility
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:50:48 +0100

Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:36:20 +0100 Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> TV> There is also a problem now with compiled files, emacs-24.4 compiled
> TV> files are not compatibles with emacs-25 compiled files and vice-versa.
>
> Forgive my ignorance: is that compatibility guaranteed or beneficial?

No, but that's mean that now with these recent changes all people using
helm will have errors in their helm packages when switching
emacs-version until they reinstall all;
And for sure they will not reinstall and I expect tons of bugreport in next
weeks... (I crossfingers hoping I am wrong)
 
-- 
Thierry
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