From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 37819@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37819: [PATCH] Make 'load-dangerous-libraries' obsolete
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 13:55:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkh8bCdkKZdo6TX3vKD+zp0S3SjLu2XXfGy-D1uZrZ5mA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2xhgmmz.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I suspect that 'load-dangerous-libraries' is largely irrelevant
> >> nowadays. Is this correct? If yes, here is a patch which would
> >> ignore it and declare it obsolete.
> >
> > What is the purpose of declaring this obsolete? I'd argue we should
> > keep this "forever", since it can never do any harm, and sometimes
> > might do an important job.
>
> The patch just makes Emacs refuse to load .elc files compiled by XEmacs
> permanently, so it looks like the right thing to me.
That is my understanding too. The use-case of loading XEmacs byte
code is, I think, not very relevant.
Is it used for anything else? If yes, I think we should change the
documentation to discuss that instead. If no, I believe making it
obsolete makes sense.
> But perhaps for Emacs 28.
I have nothing against that. (We'd also have to announce this in
NEWS; I didn't do that yet.)
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-19 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-19 0:09 bug#37819: [PATCH] Make 'load-dangerous-libraries' obsolete Stefan Kangas
2019-10-19 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-19 11:55 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
[not found] ` <87o8v21twh.fsf@marxist.se>
2020-01-22 13:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-23 17:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-19 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-03-01 0:20 ` Stefan Kangas
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