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: Marking old window variables obsolete Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:53:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83mx24dn26.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fw7wpfid.fsf@gnu.org> <6863B68E762149B28EF9C1A159D441A3@us.oracle.com> <83r4rgdpgt.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344531209 26106 80.91.229.3 (9 Aug 2012 16:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 18:53:28 2012 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 1SzVzD-00020o-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzVzD-0002rP-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzVzA-0002rI-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzVz9-0002M4-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzVz4-0002L4-GT; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8H00K00YVUF200@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:53:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8H00KOLYWSBO30@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:53:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:152369 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:10:47 -0700 > Cc: cyd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > FWIW and for the record, I disagree with _all_ of that proposal. > > > Please do not do this. There should be _no_ hurry to do anything > > > of the sort. Why can't you wait a few releases - or more - for > > > all of the above? > > > > Deprecation does not mean removal. I'm sure you know that. > > Of course. No one suggested otherwise. > > My request is first that we do not deprecate these user options _now_. How else can we encourage users to migrate to the new machinery?