From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: old-style backquotes now generates void macro
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:11:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m139pwwvx1.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtyidw029.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:28:44 -0500")
On 2010-12-17 03:28 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> "obsolete" basically means "unsupported". But in order not to alienate
> our users who don't always have the ability to fix the code they use,
> we tend to keep obsolete features working, sometimes far too long.
I think packages most users use are well supported i.e. any trivial bugs
like these are fixed promptly. The thing though is they don't know when
the obsolete features are going, so they sometimes keep using them until
absolutely have to change.
Leo
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Oracle is the new evil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 3:57 old-style backquotes now generates void macro Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-13 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-14 0:03 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-17 10:11 ` Leo [this message]
2010-12-17 15:33 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-12-17 19:01 ` David Engster
2010-12-17 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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