From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 21:28:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200505020228.j422SNo26816@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17000.13278.865098.49756@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17006.1736.406738.121947@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050430231856.CE9369F511@mirror.positive-internet.com> <17012.21023.433350.503716@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17012.57973.677404.342871@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200505011518.j41FIa323379@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115062505 1921 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2005 19:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 21:35:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSggW-0001LI-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 21:34:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSgnT-0001jG-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 15:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DSfJa-00081u-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 14:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DSfJZ-00081i-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 14:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSfJL-0007nC-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 14:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DSfLK-0002Jg-Nh; Mon, 02 May 2005 14:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DSQoy-00024t-UB; Sun, 01 May 2005 22:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j422SXog025712; Sun, 1 May 2005 21:28:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j422SNo26816; Sun, 1 May 2005 21:28:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 01 May 2005 19:39:06 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36594 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36594 Richard Stallman wrote: So people using the Elisp manual for reference are likely to have kept using executing-macro. Do we still want to remove it given that? They would still have gotten the warning messages when compiling their code. However, it looks like a fair variety of programs have reasons to look at this variable. So we can put in a defvaralias call. I replaced the make-obsolete-variable with a define-obsolete-variable-alias, which is equivalent. Sincerely, Luc.