Re: Preparing packages to work with Emacs 21

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>]

> I've been grepping Makefiles and PLISTs of packages that depend on
> Emacs looking for packages that might need modification to work with
> Emacs 21.
> 
> The initial list of packages that I found which obviously won't work
> as-is are:
> 
>   devel/irchat
>   devel/apel
>   devel/flim
>   devel/semi
>   editors/tamago
> 
> The reason I'm sending this message to this address is because the
> MAINTAINER fields for all of these packages share a common value of
> 'tech-pkg-ja@jp.netbsd.org' ;-)
> 
> AFAICT, all of these hardwire dependencies to emacs-20.* or
> emacs-20.7.
> 
> Also, apel and flim have PLISTs which contain hardwired emacs version
> numbers.  For example, the following line is from
> devel/flim/pkg/PLIST:
> 
>   share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/flim/mailcap.el
> 
> Are there any plans already to deal with the issue of having these
> packages work with Emacs 21?

AFAIK, No plan yet, but it's nice if Emacs 20 and Emacs 21 can
co-exist and these elisp packages are made for both.

Regards,
Masao