From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:43 +1200 Message-ID: <18430.39543.722541.830806@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <18429.40810.598948.654442@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207868060 24142 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2008 22:54:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 11 00:54:51 2008 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 4.50) id 1Jk5fJ-0004vL-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:54:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk5eg-0007qq-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk5ec-0007q7-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk5ec-0007pv-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk5ec-0007pp-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25] helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk5eV-0005uy-0A; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (159.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.159]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEFA3DA196; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:46 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64B168FC6D; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:44 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:94911 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > Removing them, even after many years, could break some programs > > that people have not updated. Be careful! > > I'm nog going to remove any of them. I should confess that my remark > was ironic, because I knew Nick was being way too optimistic... Maybe it was flippant but I don't see any irony. Perhaps obsolete functions and variables should only be removed after two major releases. I guess the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not much point in marking them obsolete if they're never going to be removed. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob