From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50999: 29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:59:17 +0100 Message-ID: <874k8ihsuy.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87sfw45k8w.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wnleq9bu.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Po Lu , 50999@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 06:00:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlOfu-0007oE-Ob for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Someone might decide to > resurrect them, and some other unaccounted for person might still be > using them. It's just not practical. We have to get rid of things that we no longer think is very useful in Emacs, otherwise Emacs will grow unbounded, and we don't have the maintainer capacity for that. Emacs has a package system. If there's a feature we remove from Emacs that people think is useful, they'll create a package for it and carry on. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no