From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why 'define-package' marked obsolete?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:32:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzzbp6bn.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zg87739o.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:15:31 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:21:04 +0100
>>
>> Can I ask why 'define-package' was marked obsolete?
>
> It never did anything useful. Its original implementation just
> signaled an error.
I just looked up the definition from when package.el was merged[0], and it
did stuff, mainly modifying `package-alist'.
[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el?id=44198b6ee97bcb0ac88a5cadd1bf9b62048d0156#n513
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Philip Kaludercic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-20 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 16:21 Why 'define-package' marked obsolete? dalanicolai
2023-03-20 16:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-20 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-20 19:32 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-03-21 9:10 ` dalanicolai
2023-03-21 9:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-21 17:09 ` dalanicolai
2023-03-21 17:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-22 21:27 ` dalanicolai
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