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: Sun, 25 May 2003 14:02:28 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030522132432.955B.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> <20030524143523.8511.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053885777 16831 80.91.224.249 (25 May 2003 18:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 18:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmbarranquero@laley.wke.es Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 25 20:02:51 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 19Jzpb-0004Me-00 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 20:02:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19K02Q-0000YS-00 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 20:16:06 +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 19Jzql-0000FB-4l for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:04:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JzqS-0000AN-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Jzpn-0008Ko-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JzpE-0007z9-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19JzpE-0002q3-4T; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:02:28 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: <20030524143523.8511.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Sat, 24 May 2003 14:38:41 +0200) Original-cc: ttn@glug.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu 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:14250 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14250 Perhaps it's just semanthics, but I wouldn't call "still useful" to something if no one uses it. I disagree with you; if something is unused but potentially useful, we should not delete it. The whole idea is purely academic, because we have no empirical way to determine that any feature is unused. So we don't try. We don't make our decisions about what is obsolete in that way.