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: Discarding superfluous old alternative packages Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> , <96bf0b6e-3559-ed02-5596-6a6642188309@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="12096"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 21 05:44:58 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 1jbc8g-0002zt-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 05:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54568 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc8f-0005uW-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc5z-0000Ux-0Z for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc5x-0002tz-8v; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc5v-0006e6-94; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from arthur miller on Tue, 19 May 2020 22:17:09 +0000) 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:251143 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. ]]] > Maybe it could benefit if you clean up Emacs of some old cruft, > and maybe replace some old for new. I mean be brave enough to make > a choice and be vise enough to leave options for those who prefer > differ path. In principle, this might be a good thing to do. It could be that newer options B, C, D and E cover all needs so that it would be fine if we did not have A. But there could be many existing users of A who would be unhappy if we deleted it now. We could perhaps move A to GNU ELPA, and ask users to switch to B, C, D or E within two years. -- 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)