Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

Package: Emacs
Version: 30.0.50

Idlwave has been bundled with Emacs "forever" but that code has been
unmaintained for many years. There was another version over on Github.
The two have now been consolidated and made available via GNU ELPA
(http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/idlwave.html).

AFAICT this is a package with a very small audience, so I suggest we
unbundle it from Emacs, leaving it up to users to install it from GNU
ELPA instead.

Maybe we could move it to `lisp/obsolete` for Emacs-30?

SGTM.

+1

I suppose we missed the train for Emacs 30, but how about doing this on
master now?

That was 18 weeks ago.

I have now moved idlwave.el and related files to lisp/obsolete, and
added a NEWS entry. Please see commits 75c5aaae893 and b3c82f939c3.

Thanks. Just a few days ago a user encountered a warning that confused them, arising from idl-shell looking for and failing to find an IDL install. This should help with such accidental encounters. I presume this will also have the side effect of removing the `.pro' entry from `auto-mode-alist'?