Re: Marking old window variables obsolete

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <cyd@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:53:06 -0700
> 
> > > > > My request is first that we do not deprecate these user 
> > > > > options _now_.
> > > > 
> > > > How else can we encourage users to migrate to the new machinery?
> > > 
> > > Sheesh.  If that's the only way users can be encouraged to 
> > > adopt the new machinery, that doesn't say much about how appealing
> > > it is, does it?
> > > 
> > > Users generally have little problem adopting new features 
> > > that they find (or even suspect might be) useful.
> > 
> > You must be kidding, if you rely in people discovering every new
> > feature among hundreds, let alone study each one of them.
> 
> No, I am not kidding.
> 
> And you are jumping all over the map.  So now it's about users _discovering_ new
> features?  No.

Indeed, no.  It's about encouraging them to switch.  And since we
cannot rely on them discovering these features on their own, we do it
through deprecation.

Deprecation doesn't mean removal.  I suggest to save your energy for
when the removal is discussed.