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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:06:41 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18432.35249.46929.147651@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmynztzc6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

 > Can we close this discussion?  A more useful one would be to do the work
 > of checking obsoleted functions/variables/packages and see which ones
 > can be removed because they're not used any more.

Which is impossible, of course, as there are many packages such as JDEE, ECB
and Cedet which might use them. The only time we'll know if they are still
used is after their removal when someone complains.

If ten years of byte compiler warnings stating that a variable is obsolete is
not enough to justify its removal, I'll probably spend less time on dealing
with them, not more.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-12 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10  5:02 Obsolete functions and variables Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 15:31   ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 15:43     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 22:53       ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 23:16         ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 23:27           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-10 23:45             ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-11  0:21               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-11  1:20               ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11  1:17             ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11  1:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11  7:26           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-12  0:10         ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-12  0:58           ` Sebastian Rose
2008-04-12  1:02           ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12  5:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 10:06               ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-04-12 13:38                 ` Stefan Monnier

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