From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RCS, again: another removed functionality: undo last-checkin Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 07:13:11 +0300 Message-ID: <560E0457.3070203@yandex.ru> References: <87oagx6tzz.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <55FF4026.2050004@yandex.ru> <83si68nu4i.fsf@gnu.org> <87eghsfd3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2rknr2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvwellmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <56023A6C.3020302@yandex.ru> <5602BE3E.1050009@yandex.ru> <5602C4DE.8020105@yandex.ru> <560B4899.2070708@yandex.ru> <83y4fobegc.fsf@gnu.org> <560BC73C.4040403@yandex.ru> <83d1x0atb2.fsf@gnu.org> <560C9EDA.3040207@yandex.ru> <83vbar9hv3.fsf@gnu.org> <560D2CFD.50702@yandex.ru> <83a8s2agar.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443759218 21279 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 04:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 04:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, dak@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 06:13:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhriu-0006cy-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 06:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhrit-0008K8-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhrif-0008K0-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhric-0003lT-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]:34183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zhric-0003lO-1n; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: by labzv5 with SMTP id zv5so86428465lab.1; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:13:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LJeqlMPjnwZ86+2JqT33LJUazO3sGebkWzCoSD619TU=; b=DW/pjiyo6bjiftnxil3kNJkel95tDXoXY4v+At/1+c71pJujpMhQGG0ktJ1GrTnoSl 8PlsZyEmegzbaLHGL0I1raCfIgMLSj2vdYYrlZ6tClBz3GzYejC6hAYUL/vgEnyb5L6v UkIFM1zhmyN6nNmyepnoPK1HHnq8/JGRlWW9sdIVBs91Ndl9it0/BsU09jmSFjM7Xl/z M+iKrY+3G/XybCz4AIkHjjnWfIqYSu22kII4pYQyyP53g1ctCmJ4qcNETKN9UI0sTnft eWEukl4RCGno++3/+bh8BD4pyi3T6ds9mTM0JI5zSYP0/N4tv3trEnt4FABWRiDPfjAI lPxw== X-Received: by 10.112.162.162 with SMTP id yb2mr4076992lbb.94.1443759193141; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.190] ([178.252.127.222]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id xh10sm1130969lbb.33.2015.10.01.21.13.12 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:13:12 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/41.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190633 Archived-At: On 10/02/2015 05:27 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > I mostly agree. If we want to drop a feature, we should mark it > obsolete in version N and delete it in version N+1 or N+2. In any case, "obsolete in one version, drop in the next one" is rather different from "never remove features".