From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autoload cookies for defcustoms Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:04:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2DC911234A9B4A6ABD34459FB8C26C1C@us.oracle.com> <87fwxxoio1.fsf@gmail.com> <4d7hj99qtc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k4n8z3it.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283249853 20820 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 10:17:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wojciech Meyer , Drew Adams , 'Emacs-Devel devel' To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 12:17:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNu7-0004QH-CT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:17:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36214 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqNqz-0000W4-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54739 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqNqp-0000TT-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNqo-0002pd-9Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:58586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNqn-0002oz-7p; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-70.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.70]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o7VADpTw028164; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0C0CD660E9; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:13:51 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:32:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3611=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129487 Archived-At: >> And there's no compatible way to get from here to there (eg you cannot >> mark an autoload obsolete, not that anyone would notice anyway). > Why not? Assuming you could, you could mark all autoloads as obsolete, > this would present a warning to users on startup, and a couple years > later you could remove the autoloads. The question is: how could we detect the situation where a warning is needed? Stefan