From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Towards a cleaner build Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 14:41:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83h89tb95n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8336ldd49j.fsf@gnu.org> <83r28xbhv1.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="22999"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 17 13:42:41 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRbG4-0005qc-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 13:42:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRbG3-0008W9-CS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 07:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38019) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRbFC-0008UO-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 07:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRbFC-0007sM-KN; Fri, 17 May 2019 07:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4451 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hRbF8-0002lS-JS; Fri, 17 May 2019 07:41:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 17 May 2019 12:19:08 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236651 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:19:08 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> > Would it make sense instead to move it to a separate file and put that > >> > file in lisp/obsolete? > >> > >> I can do that if you think that's the right solution. But it's been > >> obsolete since 2013, so isn't it time for it to go? > > > > Moving it into obsolete is a way of making it "go", no? > > But we do eventually remove obsolete stuff from lisp/obsolete too, > right? :-) Eventually. > I'm just wondering whether there's a policy on these things so that I > don't have to bother you with these details -- a period of time, or a > number of releases, or something, that determines when code marked as > obsolete should be deleted from the Emacs source tree. We have something like a policy, but AFAIR this case is special: we obsolete a user command on the premises that it is no longer used, and don't provide any replacement. Which is why I think obsolete/ might be a better place for it.