From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 10150@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vmzf8wb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED49229.2030107@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:04:57 -0800")
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:04:57 +0100
Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/28/11 03:17, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>> By renaming functions and variables without any kind of deprecation
>> procedure (cf. `make-obsolete' and friends),
>
> Sure, we can do deprecation. Is the usual procedure to do this for
> all visible symbols, or only for the symbols that are documented
> in the manual?
You'd have to ask the maintainers for the definitive answer (emacs-devel
added to the Cc: list); I think it's usually closer to the latter.
IMO all commands, hooks and user variables definitely need deprecation,
the rest should at least be mentioned in NEWS.
--
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-29 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-27 23:38 bug#10150: deactive->inactive, inactivate->deactivate spelling fixes Paul Eggert
2011-11-28 11:17 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-29 8:04 ` Paul Eggert
2011-11-29 11:47 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-29 11:47 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2011-12-31 6:12 ` Paul Eggert
2012-01-03 16:55 ` Štěpán Němec
2012-01-12 8:12 ` Paul Eggert
2012-01-12 16:08 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-11-28 20:46 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2011-11-29 4:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-29 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-29 8:33 ` Paul Eggert
2012-07-29 7:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02 0:51 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-08-02 1:36 ` Paul Eggert
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