Re: Directory Servers in Tools menu

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:20 -0400
> 
> I looked at this.  There are definitely some simplifications that I'd
> like to implement eventually, like deprecating then eliminating the
> eudc-options file, and allowing a single search to span multiple
> directory servers.  However, an easy first step is deprecating then
> removing XEmacs support.  Can I push this NEWS entry to the emacs-26
> branch?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index 4b1f673a7c..f014bff99c 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ with blank space to eshell history.
>  major release of Emacs.  Users of BBDB 2.x should plan to upgrade to
>  BBDB 3.x.
>  
> +*** Support for XEmacs is deprecated and will be removed in the next
> +major release of Emacs.  XEmacs users can continue using this or a
> +prior version of EUDC.

Thanks, but I don't understand what is the practical meaning of such
an entry: it doesn't really reflect any real change in Emacs.  The
deprecation doesn't have any expression in the code; using the code
you want to deprecate will not generate any warnings to the effect
that these features are deprecated.

What I suggest instead is to actually remove those parts from the
master branch and mention the removal in NEWS on that branch.