From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:37:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87lk50c4i5.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> References: <87myplmgn8.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <877igookke.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871w6wk7n1.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ve48ej7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od9xyiz7.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204551493 26606 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 13:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 14:38:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWAsI-0005AZ-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWArl-0001B0-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWArf-00015U-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWAre-00013t-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWAre-00013h-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWArd-0000Lk-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 39338 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2008 13:37:55 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-lx.rd.rdm.cua.dk) (213.83.150.21) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Mar 2008 13:37:55 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87od9xyiz7.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun\, 02 Mar 2008 04\:59\:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91172 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: > ISTR there was a policy to declare a function obsolete in the upcoming > release, that gives enough time for authors to fix external packages, > and after this release delete it in the next release. Where do you declare it obsolete ? In a news group ? How long before a release should you do that? One way would be to simply add aliases for the new names now for 22.2 release, and declare the old names obsolete Then we can remove the old names from 23.x now. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk