From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 19423-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:10:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aebc1bd-a587-4e78-b592-5197ea1ca791@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54972FF2.607@yandex.ru>
> > It misleads. There is no need for such a "warning" - nothing to
> > warn users about, since the argument is optional. It serves
> > no useful purpose.
>
> While the argument is still optional now, it won't be, at some point
> in the future.
Why should it?
> And there's a good reason to require this argument: people
> should annotate each obsoletion with the version when it happened.
That is *not* a good reason to make the argument mandatory.
That is a good reason to document why they should do so and
thus encourage them to do so. Making such an argument
mandatory for that reason alone is quite misguided.
> That change was made 5 years ago; let it go.
It is trivial to fix the mistake, no matter how long ago
it was made. Again, there is no good reason *not* to fix
this.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-21 17:14 bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional Drew Adams
2014-12-21 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 18:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 18:58 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 19:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 20:33 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 20:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 21:10 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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