From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:12:53 -0800 Message-ID: <200803061612.m26GCrHw005466@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <874pbwvmlv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ir01krr7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lk4wena2.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <9g63w0eleu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wsogt80d.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <200803061516.m26FGtem012432@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47D01307.8090404@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204820304 18739 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 16:18:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 17:18:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXImk-0005lh-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:17:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXImD-000627-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXIjc-0004Wn-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXIja-0004UY-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXIja-0004US-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXIjW-0002cF-0F; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:14 -0500 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205424775.31387@1FRszu69xvFjVnP+yaVrKQ Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m26GCrHw005466; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:12:53 -0800 (PST) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <47D01307.8090404@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:51:35 +0000") Original-Lines: 19 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:91501 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > The problem with warnings is that using > > > > ./configure && make > > > > is quite common, so seeing the warning is almost impossible. > > > > What about using a --force-obsolete option to configure to force it to > continue past the warning, rather than requiring users to edit the > configure script themselves? Too disruptive for the configure script so close to the release. And this is designed to force users take an action. (BTW, Stefan originally wanted this to be #error in src/[ms]/*.h) This is for stuff that is quite likely dead (things like HPUX running on m68k). Why do people all of a sudden care about this???