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: A proposal for removing obsolete packages Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452571688 8541 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2016 04:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 05:08:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFT-0007Rg-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:08:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFT-0005PS-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFP-0005PG-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFO-0003VV-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFN-0003V3-AS; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aIqFM-0001tr-PG; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:09:27 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198059 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For example, a package that is declared obsolete during the development > of Emacs 25 would be moved to obsolete, and a message would be added to > say that " is obsolete and will be removed in Emacs 27". It > couldn't be removed in Emacs 26 because it didn't start Emacs 25 in > obsolete. I agree. But we should not be rigit about deleting it in Emacs 27, either. Depending on how the feature is used, we might want to save it longer. Features used in Lisp code may need to remain longer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.