GNU bug report logs - #70007
[PATCH] native JSON encoder

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #83 received at 70007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com, 70007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70007: [PATCH] native JSON encoder
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:07:48 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:45:57 +0200
> Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com,
>  70007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 24 aug. 2024 kl. 18.14 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> > We are very late in the release process to make such changes without
> > reservations.  We should have discussed this much earlier, but that's
> > water under the bridge.
> 
> Yes, sorry about not following this through in time. But here we are.
> 
> > Since this could potentially (albeit unlikely) break someone's code,
> > I'm okay with making this change, but with a twist: let's have a
> > variable which could be let-bound around the call to json-serialize,
> > to make the result a multibyte string instead of the default unibyte.
> > This is so if someone comes back crying that we broke his/her code,
> > they could have an easy fire escape.
> 
> Sure, but it's a bit annoying to saddle us with some baggage that we never expect to be actually used.
> And for that matter, it's no easier to bind a variable around the call than putting a call to `decode-coding-string` around it, is it? We could describe that in NEWS.
> 
> The null option is to do nothing and stick to what we have now. It's not a terrible choice either.

Let's see what others think about this.  Stefan, Stefan, and Andrea:
any opinions wrt what, if anything, we should do about this on the
emacs-30 branch?
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