From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: obsolete functions found during the build process
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:14:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy3qnp40t.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 837ey9jhs7.fsf@gnu.org
> In general, replace the obsolete functions as the warning suggests.
> In some cases, the use of the obsolete function is justified, though.
AFAICT, there are indeed cases where using decode-coding-string instead
of string-to-multibyte is not really an option, but that means
"obsolete" is not really a good description.
Using with-no-warnings to mask obsolescence warnings is OK when we know
that the code is only kept for backward compatibility, but when there is
no good replacement, it's not a good solution.
So we should strive to provide valid alternatives for every use of
string-to-multibyte (or de-obsolete it, tho it's not my favorite solution).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-13 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-12 7:42 obsolete functions found during the build process Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-12 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-12 10:25 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-12 17:40 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-12 20:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-13 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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