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[e AT x80.org (Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias)]

Hi Théo,

Théo Zimmermann 
<theo.zimmi AT gmail.com>
 writes:

> When building a plugin, don't target an old, unsupported version of
> Coq.

Indeed, this is a good point; I assumed that Kenneth had written his
plugin some time ago when Coq 8.5pl2 was the current version.

In this case, it does make sense to make it work first with 8.5, then to
move to 8.6, then finally to 8.7.

Even if not an official policy, in practice the recommended upgrade path
for old Coq developments/plugins is the linear one.

However, if you are starting afresh, you'd absolutely rather target 8.7.

E.