From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 19822@debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
Subject: bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:06:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmqDDK5nb8styfz7iuH4YEyp9Cj6OCQoT=J4+CRUwLWWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnjg603k.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > I don't feel very strongly about this, but I'm curious: Why don't you
> > want to obsolete at least some of them? I think they add user
> > confusion and are just not very helpful.
>
> I think an across-the-board obsoletion is easier to communicate than
> doing it piece by piece.
Good point, thanks.
> > Personally, I wouldn't mind a middle ground here: to only obsolete the
> > very low hanging fruit. To be more concrete, it doesn't seem to me
> > that it would take much effort to immediately obsolete url-irc.el,
> > url-news.el, url-imap.el and url-ns.el.
>
> Oh, I missed irc: and ns:. :-/ Yes, those are pretty useless...
Given the above, how about just obsoleting url-ns.el? This file
handles Netscape configuration files, and there should be no problem
communicating the irrelevancy of that.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-01 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-06 19:15 bug#17959: eww: FTP is not supported; but with ftp_proxy, it is Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-04 16:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-10 21:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-19 8:04 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-19 17:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-16 20:09 ` bug#17959: support accessing FTP services via HTTP proxies Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-12 21:40 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-09 16:55 ` bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI Ivan Shmakov
2015-12-25 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-28 22:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <87fuym1b2r.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2015-12-28 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <87r3iawdyl.fsf@gnus.org>
2015-12-25 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-30 1:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-30 5:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 7:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 14:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 15:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 14:06 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-10-01 14:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 15:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 16:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2015-02-09 17:04 ` bug#17959: support accessing FTP services via HTTP proxies Ivan Shmakov
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