Re: 29.2: (void-function batch-update-autoloads)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:52:19 +0200
> From:  Uwe Brauer via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I am one of the maintainers of matlab-emacs, and after upgrading my
> system (and emacs) I realised that  the function batch-update-autoloads
> is gone (which we need for our compilation/installation), sigh [1]

It is not "gone", it was obsoleted.  You can still find autoloads.el
in lisp/obsolete.

> I run grep over my local cloned emacs repository but cannot find any
> information of how this function can be replaced.

You can still use that function, if you want, after loading its
package from lisp/obsolete.  If you want to migrate to the new
facility, the function to use is loaddefs-generate--emacs-batch,
defined in the new file lisp/emacs-lisp/loaddefs-gen.el.  (You could
have found this out yourself by looking at lisp/Makefile in the Emacs
Git repository, where we have the commands to generate loaddefs.el at
Emacs build time.)

> Footnotes:
> [1]  (I know it has a lot of benefits to change function and variable
>      names, but for those who don't participate in such discussion such
>      changes cause a bit of inconveniences  to say the least)

You are being unfair to us.  We never remove stuff entirely before
keeping it deprecated enough years to let everyone adapt.  Knowing
Emacs as much as you do, I'd expect you to trust us not to do anything
foolish or user-unfriendly, but instead assume that the stuff you are
looking for is present somewhere, and you just don't look for it close
enough.