From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:24:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87mtwpvaar.fsf@gnus.org> References: <5dblpawa8s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <835zfiudxx.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh0suum5.fsf@gnus.org> <871re32bv3.fsf@gnus.org> <83a6sqakfc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="763"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 39940@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 08:25:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1l676b-000Aba-DH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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It was a surprise for me to discover the nil value on > Windows. But those 5 lines aren't sacred to me, so if we decide to > deprecate the variable and eventually remove the supporting code, I > won't object. I have no strong opinion on the matter, but since there are no in-tree usages (any more), and the variable seems rather awkward, I've now marked it as obsolete. If somebody out-of-tree actually uses it, then reverting the obsoletion would also be fine by me, but I guess we'll see whether anybody pipes up. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no