From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New obsolete.el file for obsolete stuff?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:44:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=mnXxg61H3DsMd-d-EhvM6cwSrsey62JzhhzZN70ZZ1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imdgnn7c.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I don't think that would work... We add the aliases and stuff so that
> people's code will continue to work. If somebody has out-of-tree code
> that says
>
> (require 'foo)
> (foo-name)
>
> that continues to work even if we've obsoleted foo-name. Moving it to a
> separate file would defeat the purpose of that...
It would need to be dumped/pre-loaded (not sure what's the prefered
terminology here). That's what they did in XEmacs.
(One could also use `eval-after-load' where it makes sense to do so.)
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-18 12:10 New obsolete.el file for obsolete stuff? Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 12:24 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-18 12:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-18 12:44 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-18 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-18 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 14:01 ` Stefan Kangas
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