Re: Incompatible change to file-attributes - this is how it can look

GNU has added an optional arg ID-FORMAT that turns the uid and gid into their string representations. They also propose at some time make the string representation the default, and thus break old code. I guess that is what triggered the idea of making another interface that would not break old code. Instead the new string values would be added after the other old values and, while we were at it, make it into a vector instead of a list. In practise we are struck with file-attributes because of file-handlers needs it. So it gets hard and, IMHO, not worth the effort to introduce an alternative interface when we still need to keep file-attributes!? (But I haven't thrown away the patch if it is really wanted.) I'd now rather go for adding ID-FORMAT to file-attributes to complete that work since it seems we must do that anyway. That patch is almost ready except for proper ChangeLog items and native windows support. (Which I can't do at the moment because I have no tool chain.) Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta