To reduce redundancy, remove the maintenance hassle that version
constants would impose later on, and rely on built-in
facilities (featurep) more over global variables or doomisms, these
global constants have been deprecated in favor of Emacs "features":
- EMACS28+ -- replace with (> emacs-major-version 27)
- EMACS29+ -- replace with (> emacs-major-version 28)
- NATIVECOMP -- replace with (featurep 'native-compile)
- MODULES -- replace with (featurep 'dynamic-modules)
(These constants will be formally removed when v3 is released. The IS-*
constants are likely next, but I haven't decided on their substitutes
yet)
I also decided to follow native-compile's example and provide features
for Emacs' system features (since system-configuration-features' docs
outs itself as a poor method to detect features):
- dynamic-modules
- jansson
- native-compile -- this one already exists, but will instead be removed
if it's non-functional; i.e. (native-comp-available-p) returns nil.
These are now detectable using featurep, which is fast and built-in.
Some of our comments/docs can come off as disparaging or snide. They're
glimpses of unfiltered frustration or snarky rubber ducking gone too
far, something I can totally sympathize with, as a scatterbrained
tinkerer, unwittingly made responsible for a lot of work that isn't mine
because of Doom's position as a middleman. But now that Doom has a
veritable userbase, I'd like to hold it to a higher standard.
Light-hearted banter and aired grievances in our source code,
documentation, or community are fine if focused on the problem or the
personal/shared experiences of the community (things that offer value or
amusement to others), but it is never acceptable to attack people or
their efforts. Especially not the very people on whose shoulders Doom
stands.
I sincerely apologize if these have offended you.
Amend: b07614037f
