From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Rose Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:58:47 +0200 Message-ID: <48000947.9060008@gmx.de> References: <18429.40810.598948.654442@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18430.39543.722541.830806@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: sebastian_rose@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050602080800030906090502" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207961893 17376 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2008 00:58:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:58:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "[emacs.devel]" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 02:58:46 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 1JkU4s-0007Wr-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:58:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JkU4E-00085Q-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JkU4B-000856-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JkU4A-00084d-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JkU49-00084a-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JkU49-0000jD-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2008 00:57:58 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [10.129.102.125]) [92.116.102.125] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 12 Apr 2008 02:57:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190DcV8bbx0BfDR2h/gEdF6WQBR3PDhMHuTBYhva9 iy4S2zb/3ZtuDj User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080110) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95007 Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050602080800030906090502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard Stallman schrieb: > 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. > > I think that is incorrect. It is useful to urge people to make their > code use more modern interfaces regardless of whether we ever delete > the old ones. > > # cd emacs/lisp/ext/bbdbb-2.35 # ./configure --enable-gnus # make In toplevel form: bbdb-whois.el:25:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !! This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already and will be removed soon. See (elisp)Backquote in the manual. :-) --------------050602080800030906090502 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="sebastian_rose.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="sebastian_rose.vcf" YmVnaW46dmNhcmQNCmZuOlNlYmFzdGlhbiBSb3NlDQpuOlJvc2U7U2ViYXN0aWFuDQplbWFp bDtpbnRlcm5ldDpzZWJhc3RpYW5fcm9zZUBnbXguZGUNCnRpdGxlOkZhY2hpbmZvcm1hdGlr ZXIvQW53ZW5kZW5kdW5nc2VudHdpY2tsdW5nDQp0ZWw7Y2VsbDorNDkgMTczIC8gODMgOTMg NDE3DQpub3RlO3F1b3RlZC1wcmludGFibGU6RW50d2lja2x1bmcgIHZvbiBJbnRlcm5ldGFu d2VuZHVuZ2VuIHVuZCBQcm9ncmFtbWVuICBtaXQgIGZyZWllbiAgV2Vya3pldT0NCglnZW4g IHVuZCBCaWJsaW90aGVrZW4uPTBEPTBBPQ0KCT0wRD0wQT0NCglQSFAsIEphdmEsIEMvQysr LCAgQmFzaCwgIFBlcmwsICBBcGFjaGUsIE15U1FMLCAgUG9zdGdyZVNRTCwgeHQ6OmNvbW1l cmNlPQ0KCSwgVHlwbzMsIFNlcnZlciwgIE5ldHp3ZXJrLCAgRGVza3RvcCwgRGF0ZW5iYW5r LCBndGttbT0wRD0wQT0NCgkNCngtbW96aWxsYS1odG1sOkZBTFNFDQp2ZXJzaW9uOjIuMQ0K ZW5kOnZjYXJkDQoNCg== --------------050602080800030906090502--