From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:43 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18430.39543.722541.830806@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0804100843t659bbd4el4994acdebb5faec5@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Removing them, even after many years, could break some programs
> > that people have not updated. Be careful!
>
> I'm nog going to remove any of them. I should confess that my remark
> was ironic, because I knew Nick was being way too optimistic...
Maybe it was flippant but I don't see any irony. Perhaps obsolete functions
and variables should only be removed after two major releases. I guess
the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not much point in
marking them obsolete if they're never going to be removed.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 5:02 Obsolete functions and variables Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 22:53 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-04-10 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 23:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-10 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-11 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-11 1:20 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 7:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-12 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-12 0:58 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-04-12 1:02 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12 5:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 10:06 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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