Re: Incompatible change to file-attributes - this is how it can look
Michael Albinus writes:
Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Q: Since I don't really understand the file handler business with
> packages such as tramp I don't know how this core change will
> influence those. I guess file-attributes in those places would need to
> be changed to use of file-stat instead!?
No, we need to preserve the file-attributes API for backward
compatibility. This is especially true of APIs which support hooks
and handlers.
What I'm suggesting is that we can provide a more regular API for
people who want to use it, or perhaps for internal use.
I dislike this change. What you could do is to call the file name
handler of `file-attributes' inside `file-stat' if needed. But this is a
hack, and likely there will be problems in the future.
I agree that it's a problematic hack.
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