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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2020@jovi.net>
Cc: 49734@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49734: 28.0.50; define-obsolete-variable-alias
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:46:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7gf7oid.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66274858-91ee-81fb-b157-d40c0fc0c676@jovi.net> (Devon Sean McCullough's message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:11:07 -0400")

Devon Sean McCullough [2021-07-25 14:11:07] wrote:
> This change breaks existing libraries.
> Better to deprecate old forms for a few years
> rather than gratuitously and prematurely sow chaos.

Fully, agreed.  That's why the old form was made obsolete back in 2009,
so it can now be removed non-prematurely and without sowing chaos ;-)


        Stefan


PS: Here's what the NEWS says about it:

    ** The WHEN argument of 'make-obsolete' and related functions is mandatory.
    The use of those functions without a WHEN argument was marked obsolete
    back in Emacs 23.1.  The affected functions are: 'make-obsolete',
    'define-obsolete-function-alias', 'make-obsolete-variable',
    'define-obsolete-variable-alias'.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-27 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-25 18:11 bug#49734: 28.0.50; define-obsolete-variable-alias Devon Sean McCullough
2021-07-25 18:29 ` bug#49734: oops Devon Sean McCullough
2021-07-25 19:52 ` bug#49734: [External] : bug#49734: 28.0.50; define-obsolete-variable-alias Drew Adams
2021-07-26 17:50 ` Glenn Morris
2021-07-26 18:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-27 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-07-27 17:04   ` Glenn Morris
2021-07-28 15:32     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-21 20:46       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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