From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policy for obsolete funcitons Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:39:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83v8ak6luz.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3397"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 19:39:36 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qycbO-0000gF-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:39:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qycbE-00020S-V5; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qycbC-0001za-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qycbC-00026v-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:39:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=irMpU+KYeuasvLycbaoWVAXcbIqz6R95477U7dE3mcY=; b=FPU6cMBrtKkl AhBpZCJ3+tGVT1nRiVQVQz7TaTo1lQExexPtCFqYtC5zuCEeig3q30lrpS8A5iHwk8xWaFDD1UAZv KorQp4oUAEXLUU1QsN7rV9xrmYi0Nr+aTwMS+r0I9r4cO5p3n/lK/8IARlqVHHJNvWAQn5iMqNNfR 4iSgKB4AfEBgKGCycoMroaWRUwW/JJZu1aqbGkb/TjEOFY0okyh9AFifDICdOHONlaIkRjYJD9Ehn KdIYIp/Pq4grVEl5mSadbuhk+fPQGgC/gfeUgl606pIQqbMVB29sGBXtHHvBfTs/KBvujWBtFLurU 4SW03aEWEFUsuLXNsqpV9A==; In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:18:56 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312133 Archived-At: > From: Andrea Corallo > Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:18:56 -0400 > > doing some maintanance in the native compiler I'd like to rename some > function and possibly remove some other. > > What's the policy for renaming o removing functions which never meant to > be used as public interfaces (assuming this last bit makes any > difference)? > > Can we just do it or we need to obsolete the one we want to remove and > alias the ones that gets renamed? If the function had a "--" in its name, it is an internal one and can be renamed. Otherwise, we need to add an obsolete alias with the old name. > In case how long is the obsolete period before we can clean them-up? Several major releases.