From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions? Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:30:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83y3mzat2w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834lpncsce.fsf@gnu.org> <831skrcqtb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511321459 8052 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2017 03:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sds@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 04:30:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLkS-0001ck-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:30:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLkX-0001N1-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLk1-0001Ml-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLk0-0000ZU-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLjv-0000X3-7N; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4315 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eHLju-0005KC-MA; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:19 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Sam Steingold on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:57:16 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:220347 Archived-At: > From: Sam Steingold > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:57:16 -0500 > > The present question, however, is not about any specific alias. > I want to know when I can remove something obsolete without a > emacs-devel discussion. > Is the answer "never"? Yes, that's my answer. Removing features should always be discussed.