bug#12997: Add some way to mark autoloads as obsolete

bug#12997: Add some way to mark autoloads as obsolete

[Glenn Morris]

Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist

It would be handy if there was a way to mark autoloads obsolete.
Then if the relevant function/variable is accessed without the
associated package being already loaded, a warning would be produced.
(Either from the byte-compiler or via display-warning at the end of
loading ~/.emacs.)

bug#12997: Add some way to mark autoloads as obsolete

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> It would be handy if there was a way to mark autoloads obsolete.
> Then if the relevant function/variable is accessed without the
> associated package being already loaded, a warning would be produced.
> (Either from the byte-compiler or via display-warning at the end of
> loading ~/.emacs.)

I may well be misunderstanding what you mean here, but if you

;;;###autoload
(defun foo ()
  (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))

then that obsoletion form also makes it into the loaddefs file, so this
seems like it should already work?

Or is this something that's been fixed in the decade since the bug
report was opened?

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bug#12997: Add some way to mark autoloads as obsolete

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I may well be misunderstanding what you mean here, but if you
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun foo ()
>   (declare (obsolete nil "25.1"))
>
> then that obsoletion form also makes it into the loaddefs file, so this
> seems like it should already work?
>
> Or is this something that's been fixed in the decade since the bug
> report was opened?

This was a month ago, so I'm going to go ahead and guess that this works
fine now, and I'm closing this bug report.  If this bug report was about
something else, please respond to the debbugs address and we'll reopen.

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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#12997: Add some way to mark autoloads as obsolete

[Glenn Morris]

FTR, I meant "a way to indicate that an autoload cookie is obsolete,
and might be removed"; not "a way to autoload an obsolete function".