From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:52:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2007130945240394.13269@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455BA940-0BFF-4229-A60D-D33A2FF3385B@gnu.org>
>
>> I might be wrong, but I think Dmitry's viewpoint is that if he
>> documents X, then X becomes part of the API. Other developers will (or
>> might) use X in their code, and he would not be completely free to
>> change X anymore. He would have to keep X in a number of future
>> versions of his code, document X as being obsolete for a while, create
>> Y in parallel, and only later remove X from his code.
>
> I tried to explain why these fears have no basis: if we clearly say that
> some details are subject to change without notice, we can change them
> when we need to.
>
> IOW, doing that does NOT make these details part of the public API which
> we promise shall remain stable.
>
I might be wrong, but in that case I think Dmitry's viewpoint is that this
information should not be placed in the doc strings, but in the comments
in the source file.
Again, I'm not Dmitry, and this does not mean I agree with him.
Gregory
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2020-06-19 11:01 ` master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 11:37 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-19 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 12:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 12:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 13:27 ` Philip K.
2020-06-19 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:41 ` Philip K.
2020-06-20 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:25 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 19:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 7:43 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 9:29 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 10:19 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20 11:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 22:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:46 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-06-20 11:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 21:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 23:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 12:30 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-20 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 23:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-21 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-21 22:24 ` Juri Linkov
2020-06-22 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-28 0:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-28 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-28 22:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-29 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-29 15:07 ` Stephen Leake
2020-06-29 22:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-01 22:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-01 22:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-01 22:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-04 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 22:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-05 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-05 19:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-07 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 15:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-10 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-10 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10 19:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 11:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 0:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 14:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 15:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 1:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 7:11 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-13 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 7:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-07-13 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 18:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 7:58 ` tomas
2020-07-17 10:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-17 15:27 ` tomas
2020-07-18 0:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-18 9:05 ` tomas
2020-07-18 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-18 11:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-18 19:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-19 2:27 ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-19 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-20 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-13 19:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 18:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 21:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-17 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-17 1:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 18:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 20:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-13 10:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 15:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 19:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 21:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11 12:59 ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-12 14:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 17:19 ` Michael Albinus
2020-06-28 22:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-29 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 15:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2020-06-19 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-06-19 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-06-19 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 17:46 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:22 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:57 ` Theodor Thornhill
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2020-06-19 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-06-20 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 21:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
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