bug#50331: 28.0.50; Propose to obsolete cwarn.el

[Zhiwei Chen <condy0919@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Zhiwei Chen <condy0919@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 50331@debbugs.gnu.org,  andlind@gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:12:03 +0800
>> 
>> Why would I like to obsolete cwarn?
>> 
>> Actually, I'm making an introduction to Emacs builtin modes (in Chinese)
>> to see how powerful the vanilla Emacs is. But I found, Emacs is not so
>> orthogonal in functionality. e.g., `whitespace-mode' provides
>> `whitespace-cleanup' while simple.el has `delete-trailing-whitespace'.
>> Is it time to do subtraction for Emacs? There are too many packages
>> merged into Emacs, but a few are removed from Emacs (to elpa maybe).
>
> That's true, and one way we have for doing that is moving some stuff
> to GNU ELPA.  But that is WIP, and we didn't yet figure out how to
> move stuff to ELPA from core without punishing our users.  So we need
> to wait for that work to be completed before we can talk about making
> Emacs core thinner.
>
> In any case, obsoleting packages is not the right way of doing that,
> IMO: there's nothing obsolete in a package that offers some
> functionality which doesn't have a 1:1 replacement.

Thanks for the effort in Emacs.

> In a recent discussion on Reddit, it turned out many don't know about
> dabbrev.el as well, but I hope no one will propose to obsolete or
> remove it on those grounds.
>
> So I think we should not obsolete cwarn for now.

Got it, Emacs developers have already been working on that.

-- 
Zhiwei Chen