From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 2ec8f28: Introduce defcustom 'executable-prefix-env' Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:55:20 +0300 Message-ID: <837eyv58pz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170722073452.31002.6998@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170722073453.C375420329@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83wp6x7qgw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501095425 20804 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 18:57:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: slewsys@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 20:57:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daRUP-0004yI-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daRUV-00008u-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daRTT-0008GP-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daRTS-0000sk-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daRTK-0000p1-V9; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1708 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1daRTJ-0005fG-8g; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:55:50 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:47:53 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217056 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, slewsys@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:47:53 -0400 > > > But do you see anything wrong with doing that? I didn't, so I left it > > as submitted by the author. > > It's not part of the documented meaning for :version ("This keyword > specifies that the item was first introduced in Emacs version VERSION, > or that its default value was changed in that version"). Yes, it's not the "usual" meaning, but it sounded close enough to me. > There's a standard method for deprecating options, to mark them > obsolete; so yes, I think using :version for that is wrong. I don't think we should deprecate it in the normal sense of that word.