From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inhibit "Wrote foo" from write-region
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:04:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ob32efrq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALf2awRDobdCYF6r9mWXC4-4+WqPrDoPJO+P8GRC96OepYNKXg@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:31:58 +0100
> From: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Imagine some situation where this output is caught and parsed, for
> > example.
> >
> > In general, given behavior that is old enough, you can be sure that
> > someone, somewhere relies on it.
>
> I don't think it is my task to care for anyone, anywhere.
Why not? Backward incompatibility is one of the worst traits in
software, IMO.
> If there is a concrete use case for these messages, fine, then we can try
> to find a good solution for either party involved, but we can't reasonably
> discuss about "virtual" use cases.
I just gave you one concrete use case, above.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-21 12:32 Inhibit "Wrote foo" from write-region Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 12:38 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-21 16:31 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 12:35 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 17:00 ` Sebastian Wiesner
[not found] ` <<834n4xgu3z.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-01-21 17:59 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-21 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 8:05 ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-21 16:42 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-22 12:37 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 17:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 9:35 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 14:24 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 16:15 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 17:31 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-24 20:14 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 17:37 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-24 13:34 ` Johan Andersson
2014-01-24 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-24 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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