From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:28:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030522132432.955B.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> References: <20030522090031.9552.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053603782 20367 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 11:43:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 13:42:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IoTK-0005I1-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19IoeZ-0003Xg-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IoTX-0001mj-Fv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IoT8-0001mI-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IoT6-0001m4-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from laley-actualidad.es ([195.53.61.17] helo=haya.laley.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IoDs-0004qM-0s; Thu, 22 May 2003 07:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from idefix.laley.net (correo.wke.es [172.17.220.16]) by haya.laley.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27025; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:24:47 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.17.2.45] (JMBARRANQUERO [172.17.2.45]) by idefix.laley.net 5.5.2655.55) id LHASQQRL; Thu, 22 May 2003 13:27:51 +0200 Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.06.02 Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: lektu@terra.es X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14086 On 22 May 2003 07:04:36 -0400 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > It is still used by someone? > > this can never be answered reliably by the people on this list. Unless the answer is "yes", you mean? :-) But more seriously, the question remains: do we obsolete code only when it's superseeded by other code, or there are ways to obsolete code that supports old systems (tools, operating systems, whatever) if we think it's probably not used anymore? Taking into account that, currently, obsoleting a lisp module is nothing more than moving it to obsolete/; there's no clear directive about when, if ever, obsolete/*.el are going to be deleted from the distribution. Juanma