From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:35:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83zh1m13k0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtxqcauz.fsf@gnu.org> <83turva0y2.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34759"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, juri@linkov.net To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 16:38:59 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAtl-0008sQ-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:38:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAtk-00065t-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAqX-0001xU-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:35:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAqV-0005oj-J0; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4871 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAqO-0003HB-FX; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:35:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:06:44 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262605 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:06:44 +0100 > Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii , juri@linkov.net, rms@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > But in general, backwards compatibility complaints are taken seriously > no matter the sender. In fact, this project sometimes goes to extreme > lengths simply to maintain backwards-compatibility even in the most > minor and inconsequential cases. > > But of course on occasion we trip up: we don't pay enough attention to > this aspect, or we take it much too far. Both are equally bad, IMHO. > To my mind, we need to take a balanced view. I don't see how a hard > rule (or even a soft one) will help us do that better. 100% agreement.