From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't build latest emacs on MSW + CRLF display issue Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:36:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2p1h5j7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <807gfadm22.fsf@gmail.com> <83ob8lhkys.fsf@gnu.org> <83ioyth8pd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377462977 15690 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2013 20:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 25 22:36:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VDh2n-0005XD-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:36:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDh2n-0005Yf-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDh2f-0005YT-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDh2a-00033g-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:49687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDh2a-00033S-GN; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MS300J00T6JBE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:36:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MS300JWBT837H30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:36:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163025 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:40:44 -0400 > Cc: vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> If you don't want to remove this old method (I really don't get this, > >> but we've been over this before), can it at least print a big fat > >> warning when it starts, maybe even with a "press return to continue at > >> your own risk" or somesuch. (Maybe it does this already.) > > > > Feel free to add that, I don't want to invest even a few seconds of my > > time on this. > > I'd much rather remove it all together, but you won't allow it. > Therefore we are stuck in this state. With any other deprecated feature, we usually let it linger for quite some time before deleting it. I have no idea why this particular case should be different (nor, for that matter, why it triggers such strong emotions).