Re: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change command to interactive ... modes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Why it's important that commands loaded from .elc files are backwards
>> compatible when commands loaded from .el files aren't, for instance.
>
> The command's body is the same, so it is IMO a disadvantage to have a
> .elc file that can only be loaded by Emacs >= 28.

The .elc file can be loaded fine -- the only incompatibility is in the
interactive spec bit (both in the .el file and in the .elc file).

So "not backwards compatible bytecode" is perhaps overstating the case.

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