bug#22025: Emacs 25 corrupts Emacs 24 .emacs.desktop.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

(Recap of thread: the current emacs-25 branch desktop.el silently
converts a .emacs.desktop file into version 208, which is incompatible
with the desktop.el in Emacs 24.5.  I wrote an amendment, by which such
a conversion would happen only at the explicit request of the user.
That patch was the topic of this thread back in early December.)

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:30:47PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:40:31 +0000
> > Cc: 22025@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > > If they don't pay attention, they will stay with the old format.  Do
> > > they lose much?

> > They will lose the mark ring being save.  Precisely that.

> Doesn't sound like a catastrophe to me.

> > OK, here is the patch.  Do you think I should solicit a review from
> > somebody else before I commit it to emacs-25?

> I'd like Juanma to look at it, thanks.

I asked Juanma back then to review it, but he seems to have disappeared.
I hope nothing bad has happened to him.

I do think it would be a good thing for this patch to make it into the
first pre-test version of Emacs 25.1, to save our pretesters from having
their .emacs.desktop's becoming incompatible with their main Emacs
systems.

Could somebody else perhaps take on the role of reviewing my patch?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).