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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning"
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:17:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zmvckcbo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17014.45052.964670.675332@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 3 May 2005 10:55:56 +1200")

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

>  > >  >     Quite a lot with no timestamp.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > They might be obsolete since long long ago.  What are they?
>  > >
>  > > desktop.el: desktop-enable
>  > >             desktop-buffer-modes-to-save
>  > >             desktop-buffer-misc-functions
>  > >             desktop-buffer-handlers
>  > >             desktop-load-default
>  > 
>  > They are still the standard and only interface in Emacs 21.4.
>
> Some of these don't seem to be obsoleted correctly, in any case e.g the only
> reference I can find to desktop-buffer-misc-functions is
>
> (make-obsolete-variable 'desktop-buffer-misc-functions
>                         'desktop-save-buffer)
>
> i.e desktop-buffer-misc-functions is no longer a variable in Emacs 22.0.50
>
> Shall I replace these with, e.g.:
>
> (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'desktop-buffer-misc-functions
>                                 'desktop-save-buffer "22.0")

If I remember correctly, this is not going to cut it: I think I had to
change preview-latex to use the new interface since the old interface
was not supported at all any more.  It was not just a matter of
renaming variables: I also had to change other stuff.

There is probably no sense in declaring a variable an obsolete alias
if it does not even work!  I think we should add a compatibility layer
with the old interface (can't be much more than three lines or so)
that we'll remove with 23.1 or so.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-19 14:48 Incompatible change without "warning" Frank Schmitt
2005-04-19 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-19 20:53 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-19 21:25   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-19 22:10     ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-04-20 14:57     ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:21       ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-21 14:17         ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-21 22:35           ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-22  9:46             ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-22 21:32               ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-23  7:17                 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23  7:31                   ` David Kastrup
2005-04-23 19:25                     ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23  8:10                   ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-23  9:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-23 19:27                     ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-21 19:56         ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 23:14           ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-21 23:56             ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23 16:15             ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-26  9:15               ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-26 21:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-26 21:35                   ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-26 21:45                     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                 ` <20050430231856.CE9369F511@mirror.positive-internet.com>
2005-05-01  3:50                   ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-01 12:07                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 14:06                       ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-01 15:18                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 23:39                           ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02  2:28                             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 18:57                         ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 21:18                           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 18:57                         ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 18:57                         ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 22:43                           ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-02  7:38                             ` David Kastrup
2005-05-02 22:55                               ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-03  4:31                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-03  7:17                                 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-05-04 22:04                                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-03 17:12                                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02 23:40                               ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02 15:21                             ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 14:57   ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-19 21:35 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-20 23:14   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-21  0:56     ` Nick Roberts

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