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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "'Óscar Fuentes'" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
	"'Juanma Barranquero'" <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	"'Fabian Ezequiel Gallina'" <galli.87@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:40:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1v1x4tyn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E42E56342C648C0B0DFA48F9D10659A@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:42:16 -0700")

> BTW, IIUC it is not yet obsolete - it is still supported.  It is being
> deprecated at this time, not desupported.
 
We rarely stop supporting something before we actually remove it
altogether: obsolete features are usually still supported to the extent
that we try and fix new bugs in them when people report them.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-12 21:54 Deprecate _emacs on Windows Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-12 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-12 22:48   ` Drew Adams
2011-03-12 22:53     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-12 23:03       ` Drew Adams
2011-03-12 23:20         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-13  4:01   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-13  4:14     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-22 20:38     ` Drew Adams
2011-03-22 20:50       ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  0:12         ` Drew Adams
2011-03-23  0:26           ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  0:58             ` Drew Adams
2011-03-23  1:34               ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  1:42                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-24 23:33                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-24 23:39                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  2:42                 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-23  3:00                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  3:20               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-23  3:34                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23  5:01                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-03-23 12:07                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23 12:23                       ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-03-23 12:30                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23 13:36                           ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-03-23 13:42                           ` Drew Adams
2011-03-23 14:30                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-23 17:40                             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-23 14:09                 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-23 16:23                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-13 22:49 ` Chong Yidong

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