From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:59:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od9xyiz7.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v97igmg2da.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:33:37 +0100")
>> According to Google, for example, there is a package called
>> neophyte.el that creates advice for describe-project, which you've
>> renamed to describe-gnu-project.
>
> If we talk about <http://web.springies.com/~ats/emacs/neophyte.el>,
> IMHO there's no need to introduce compatibility aliases for external
> packages that have been not been updated since more than 10 years[1].
>
> Are there other packages that use the old names?
ISTR there was a policy to declare a function obsolete in the upcoming
release, that gives enough time for authors to fix external packages,
and after this release delete it in the next release.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-02 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 12:04 Online help and help-for-help improvements Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 22:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:08 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-28 23:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:48 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-29 12:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-01 10:33 ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-02 2:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-03 13:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-03 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 23:40 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 18:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05 0:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:40 ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-05 0:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 21:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-04 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-06 0:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-06 15:18 ` Chong Yidong
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