From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Yikes! easy-menu-add is suddenly compiled to `ignore', without any warning. Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:41:01 +0300 Message-ID: <8335w2b9v6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23113"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 07 13:41:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lU6ZE-0005tn-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lU6ZD-0002C0-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lU6YW-0001Qc-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lU6YW-00086A-61; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2415 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lU6YR-0005rS-9T; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:41:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:29:38 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:267506 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:29:38 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > 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.