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: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:40:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17027.30024.418184.567765@chls068.ch.intel.com> <17034.42710.151931.874355@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17035.61580.568515.598030@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116542699 28392 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 22:44:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:44:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 20 00:44:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYtjg-00087o-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 00:43:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYtmO-0006tQ-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYtk5-0006EX-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYtjv-00068J-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:43:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYtju-00067d-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYtpM-0004OG-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DYtgP-00089I-2w; Thu, 19 May 2005 18:40:01 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 19 May 2005 10:20:15 +0200) 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:37370 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37370 Please put the definition of unfocus-frame back in. It should not be removed in this release. So yeah, probably there wasn't a byte-compiler warning on 21.1 saying `unfocus-frame' was obsolete; but the function *was* obsolete anyway and suitable replacements had been introduced (and, I presume, documented). You mustn't presume such a thing. The fact is, this function had become a no-op. There was no "replacement". But with nothing to call programmers' attention to the unnecessary calls, they probably didn't remove them. I am sure there are many programs that still call this function. In this release, it should only get a warning. We can remove it in 23.1.