From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:15:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4558a0a5-4253-005c-e8e7-b9a1b99d2bee@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lzefori9c3.fsf@gnu.org>
Sam Steingold wrote:
> these seem clear-cut:
>
> mail/sendmail.el:(make-obsolete-variable 'mail-yank-hooks 'mail-citation-hook "19.34")
> mh-e/mh-letter.el(mh-make-obsolete-variable 'mh-yank-hooks 'mail-citation-hook "19.34")
Yes, removing those makes sense.
> these are more controversial:
>
> select.el:
> ;; Only declared obsolete in 23.3.
> (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-selection 'x-get-selection "at least 19.34")
Since this wasn't declared obsolete until 23.3 and 23.1 is still used enough,
I'd leave it in for now.
> subr.el:
> ;; Lisp manual only updated in 22.1.
> (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'executing-macro 'executing-kbd-macro
> "before 19.34")
22.1 is old enough so that alias can go, if you ask me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-22 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-02 15:04 when do we remove backward compatibility definitions? Sam Steingold
2017-11-21 17:37 ` Sam Steingold
2017-11-21 19:54 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-21 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-21 20:18 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-21 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-21 21:07 ` Sam Steingold
2017-11-21 21:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-21 21:57 ` Sam Steingold
2017-11-22 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 7:15 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-11-22 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 22:54 ` Richard Stallman
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