From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:53:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh6hcqi6c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzm8w5oj.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:21:48 +0800")
>> (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
>>
>> * lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove converters
>> from 2004 and before.
>> * lisp/gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el: Delete file.
>
> What prompted this change? It's not exactly a mortal sin for code to be
> old or even ancient,
It's not the age of the code itself: it's code whose purpose is to
convert `.newsrc` files generated by Gnus from 2004 or before :-)
I think it's safe to assume that such files have long ceased to exist or to
be of any use.
Stefan
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2024-03-12 2:21 ` master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters Po Lu
2024-03-12 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-03-12 3:14 ` Po Lu
2024-03-12 18:53 ` Malik
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