Re: compiles suffix (*.elc)

Kyle> I think we (xemacs) should move to a different file suffix. Kyle> And we should do it now, early in the 21.2 dev cycle. I disagree. The hassle of renaming will be large (I mean for the users). As far as I know, there is no bytecode incompatibility between 21.0 and 21.2. You can (modulo bugs) still create .elc's with 21.2 that will work in FSF Emacs 20. Incompatibilities occur occasionally in both branches of Emacs. FSF Emacs is certainly not very good at waiting for a major version renumbering before introducing incompatibilities. A hypothetical new compiler that would generate .c files from .el files would be worth a new file extension, but I'd be inclined to simply use foo.el.c for those. Martin