From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:12:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17000.13278.865098.49756@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17006.1736.406738.121947@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050430231856.CE9369F511@mirror.positive-internet.com> <17012.21023.433350.503716@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17012.57973.677404.342871@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17013.23443.440554.608805@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <858y2yulfp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17014.45052.964670.675332@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115233015 21700 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2005 18:56:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 20:56:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTP28-0003C6-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 20:55:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTP9U-0003sH-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 15:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DT3oF-0004xk-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 16:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DT3oE-0004xQ-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 16:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT3oE-0004xG-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 16:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DT3rL-0005k7-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 16:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DT0wd-0003fh-LI; Tue, 03 May 2005 13:12:27 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17014.45052.964670.675332@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Tue, 3 May 2005 10:55:56 +1200) 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:36641 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36641 Some of these don't seem to be obsoleted correctly, in any case e.g the only reference I can find to desktop-buffer-misc-functions is (make-obsolete-variable 'desktop-buffer-misc-functions 'desktop-save-buffer) i.e desktop-buffer-misc-functions is no longer a variable in Emacs 22.0.50 Shall I replace these with, e.g.: (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'desktop-buffer-misc-functions 'desktop-save-buffer "22.0") That might be the right approach, but first can you find which person deleted it and ask him if it still needs to exist?