From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50999: 29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:07:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r1d1nn5m.fsf@gnus.org> <875yuc7y44.fsf@gnus.org> <83lf374px5.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfv9uog6.fsf@yahoo.com> <87czm9jgt3.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Glenn Morris , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Kangas , Lars Ingebrigtsen , 50999@debbugs.gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 04:08:18 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 1muQq1-0006bS-OR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:08:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muQq0-0003Su-ME for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:08:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muQpo-0003Qd-4O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muQpm-0006UH-Dw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1muQpm-0007qK-0Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:08:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 03:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50999 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50999-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50999.163884642930080 (code B ref 50999); Tue, 07 Dec 2021 03:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50999) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Dec 2021 03:07:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35807 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1muQov-0007p5-Hh for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:54730) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1muQou-0007om-2J for 50999@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 6B0B2442176; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 22:07:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 1FE344420D1; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 22:07:01 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1638846421; bh=/++IurUmRZj9BnfMJaBqdqodMfsSkWHinXDiD/ZyKIw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=oYhZuFsxcHvpK1RxSXoaIwEWGC2bPAK+U+FpiqPBXtPEFtKi80GTqln4xpcTq5C8j 2PVU6d1qfDjIaiCfbYCxhaVDbBEsIN1omegasE/5mvFz0fM8vT4pxMgf/nKwWtGVQg xSUGm4lVCa2CtGaPUvWGaXMngTW0/x65GerB9p4wCI58ZO4XDM/a48xZon3A6ZhJUX WlkYsRZ4IYbKkoSCjcYGvakvvA+yfXAi4DggWyqfxxA9nH6Ca5Jkjg7eemPPYdW3dM Ssosig6pcafA5CihDiwjP1QcltjCDzHkEV0HT/eGhVPt3O5BuZXqrDiyPYXMLHd43G naatHsDIoD/Lg== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.30.173]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D0B9312090C; Mon, 6 Dec 2021 22:07:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87czm9jgt3.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:21:28 +0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221803 Archived-At: Po Lu [2021-12-07 10:21:28] wrote: > Glenn Morris writes: >> If it were me, I'd just bundle assoc.el with my code, rather than ask >> upstream to distribute it forever. > That raises the question of where to put assoc.el. I recommend /dev/null for it. > It might also lead to a proliferation of various incompatible versions > of it. Seeing that there's been basically no substantial made to it in a decade (other than cosmetic fixes), I wouldn't worry about it. Also because its semantics is sufficiently twisted that it'd be pretty hard to make any non-trivial change without risking breaking something. Stefan