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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:59:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od9xyiz7.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v97igmg2da.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:33:37 +0100")

>> According to Google, for example, there is a package called
>> neophyte.el that creates advice for describe-project, which you've
>> renamed to describe-gnu-project.
>
> If we talk about <http://web.springies.com/~ats/emacs/neophyte.el>,
> IMHO there's no need to introduce compatibility aliases for external
> packages that have been not been updated since more than 10 years[1].
>
> Are there other packages that use the old names?

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.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-02  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 12:04 Online help and help-for-help improvements Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 22:49   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:01     ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:12       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:08 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-28 23:01   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:48     ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-29 12:22       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-01 10:33       ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-02  2:59         ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-03 13:37           ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-03 14:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 23:40               ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 15:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 18:17                   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:29                     ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05  0:29                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:40                     ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-05  0:30                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 21:37                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-04 21:48                       ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-06  0:09                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-06 15:18                         ` Chong Yidong

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