From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp? Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:49:04 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030522090031.9552.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> <20030522132432.955B.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053731074 19660 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 23:04:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 23:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 01:04:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JLYR-0004vt-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 01:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19JLkP-00086K-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 01:14:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JLUq-0000Nb-9E for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JLQk-0006NU-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JLMP-0004da-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JLLU-0004Am-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19JLLU-0002wt-GG; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:49:04 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: <20030522132432.955B.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 22 May 2003 13:28:39 +0200) Original-cc: lektu@terra.es Original-cc: ttn@glug.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14171 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14171 But more seriously, the question remains: do we obsolete code only when it's superseeded by other code, or there are ways to obsolete code that supports old systems (tools, operating systems, whatever) if we think it's probably not used anymore? We can call something obsolete when we have positive reason to believe it is *not useful* any more.