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: Deprecating BBDB 2.x support in EUDC for Emacs 26.1 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:19:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83a80auroo.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509276007 21455 195.159.176.226 (29 Oct 2017 11:20:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 12:20:02 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 1e8ldG-0004cp-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:19:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8ldN-00052j-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8ldG-00052d-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8ldB-0004eo-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8ldA-0004eh-W6; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1985 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e8ldA-0006Jn-An; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:19:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Thomas Fitzsimmons on Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:07:25 -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:219815 Archived-At: > From: Thomas Fitzsimmons > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:07:25 -0400 > > For EUDC in the Emacs 26.1 release, I'd like to deprecate backward > compatibility support for BBDB versions less than 3, and then > subsequently remove that support, maybe as soon as Emacs 27.1. Doing so > would simplify eudcb-bbdb.el and allow it to take advantage of new > features that Roland has been adding in BBDB 3.x, like UUIDs. > > We discussed this idea on the bbdb-user mailing list. So far, no one > has objected, but I thought I would also ask here before pushing the > NEWS patch. Does the attached NEWS patch look OK to push to the > emacs-26 branch? Looks OK, thanks. Is it possible to mark some 2.x specific functions or variables obsolete?