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Allow for easily rewriting Emacs packages to use emacs-next

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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>, GNU Debbugs <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 63920 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63920: Allow for easily rewriting Emacs packages to use emacs-next
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:14:07 +0200

Hi,

On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 at 22:20, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree adding multiple outputs would make things complicated and messy,
> and should thus not be the approach pursued.  I think this should be
> feasible via package rewriting procedures, like we had in the past for
> Python 2 with package-for-python2 or similar, which users can apply to
> their Emacs package collection in a manifest file.

For the record, it remembers these related or similar discussions:

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41732
    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/64586

Cheers,
simon

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