system-process-attributes

system-process-attributes

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi,
It seem `system-process-attributes' have changed to
`process-attributes' in 23.0.91. 
Why not using an alias to the old function and saying something like
system-process-attributes is obsolete ....etc.... use instead
process-attributes.(as compile warning)

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A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France

Re: system-process-attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:27:06 +0100
> 
> It seem `system-process-attributes' have changed to
> `process-attributes' in 23.0.91. 

Yes.

> Why not using an alias to the old function and saying something like
> system-process-attributes is obsolete ....etc.... use instead
> process-attributes.(as compile warning)

How is it useful to declare obsolete a function that was never
released in any official Emacs version?

Re: system-process-attributes

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:27:06 +0100
>> 
>> It seem `system-process-attributes' have changed to
>> `process-attributes' in 23.0.91. 
>
> Yes.
>
>> Why not using an alias to the old function and saying something like
>> system-process-attributes is obsolete ....etc.... use instead
>> process-attributes.(as compile warning)
>
> How is it useful to declare obsolete a function that was never
> released in any official Emacs version?

Because since the last released of emacs some programs have been build 
with the CVS version of emacs using this function.

-- 
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France

Re: system-process-attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:47:01 +0100
> 
> > How is it useful to declare obsolete a function that was never
> > released in any official Emacs version?
> 
> Because since the last released of emacs some programs have been build 
> with the CVS version of emacs using this function.

People who do that should understand the dangers of using unreleased
APIs that, by their very nature, are subject to change without notice.

Re: system-process-attributes

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

>> How is it useful to declare obsolete a function that was never
>> released in any official Emacs version?

> Because since the last released of emacs some programs have been
> build with the CVS version of emacs using this function.

Such code is called "bleeding edge" for a good reason. ;-)

Please don't clutter the released version with unnecessary aliases.

Ulrich

Re: system-process-attributes

[Juanma Barranquero]

> Why not using an alias to the old function and saying something like
> system-process-attributes is obsolete ....etc.... use instead
> process-attributes.(as compile warning)

Because `system-process-attributes' is not in any released Emacs. It's
absurd to introduce a new function and an obsolete alias for it at the
same time.

    Juanma

Re: system-process-attributes

[Miles Bader]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> It seem `system-process-attributes' have changed to
> `process-attributes' in 23.0.91. 
> Why not using an alias to the old function and saying something like
> system-process-attributes is obsolete ....etc.... use instead
> process-attributes.(as compile warning)

The function did not exist in previous versions of emacs, so there
should be no need for an alias.

-miles

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