From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <266155d4-f9c0-8ed3-8df5-32feea171076@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="112410"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:16:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRag-000T9p-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:16:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52224 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRaf-0002iv-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38488) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRYF-0007hO-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRYE-0000fN-R5; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRYB-0000Vt-8U; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sun, 3 May 2020 09:56:08 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248782 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. ]]] > So, does that mean that once something "ships" with Emacs it's written in > stone forever? What could be good rules of thumb to be able to rename or > alias something? To replace an established function name is something we do only with great caution. First we define the new name. Later we deprecate the old name. Later we make a warning when it is used. A few years after that, we could delete it, perhaps. It takes many years. We can do this when the new name is clearly an improvement. We can also add new aliases without replacing the old name. But we should not do that merely because someone asks for another name. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)