From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:59:48 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87od9xyiz7.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87myplmgn8.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <877igookke.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871w6wk7n1.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ve48ej7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204428609 18983 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2008 03:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 03:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 02 04:30:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JVeuH-0005jI-MM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:30:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVetj-0006a2-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVetf-0006ZB-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVete-0006YL-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVetd-0006YG-PS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVetc-0002u5-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JVetR-0002lI-Vv; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:29:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:33:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 1678f860418e8694a064f05d5e21ded6 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2346 [Feb 29 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91027 Archived-At: >> 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 , > 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/