From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Yikes! easy-menu-add is suddenly compiled to `ignore', without any warning.
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:41:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335w2b9v6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG17goRa+2k1AzVt@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:29:38 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:29:38 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> Hello, Emacs and Stefan K.
>
> In Emacs 28, easy-menu-add is now compiled to `ignore'. This isn't
> friendly, particularly as in Emacs 27.2 and earlier, it just worked,
> without any warnings of impending obsoletion.
>
> The warning message Emacs 28.1 gives out is particularly unfriendly and
> unhelpful. It looks like this:
>
> cc-mode.el:2591:4: Warning: `easy-menu-add' is an obsolete function
> (as of 28.1); use `ignore' instead.
>
> Use `ignore' instead?
easy-menu-add was an alias of 'ignore' since 4 years ago. How come
it is suddenly an issue what it is compiled to? Are you sure the
issue isn't the obsolescence warning itself? that was indeed added
last November.
> Why have we not followed the normal procedure here, by marking the
> function as obsolete, yet leaving it working, for one or two major
> versions, and only then removing it?
It wasn't removed, so the procedure followed here is indeed our usual
one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 9:29 Yikes! easy-menu-add is suddenly compiled to `ignore', without any warning Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-07 10:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-07 11:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-04-07 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-07 14:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-04-07 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-07 14:30 ` XEmacs compatibility (was: Yikes! easy-menu-add is suddenly compiled to `ignore', without any warning) Stefan Monnier
2021-04-07 11:58 ` Yikes! easy-menu-add is suddenly compiled to `ignore', without any warning Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-07 12:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-07 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-04-07 12:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
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