From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 66946@debbugs.gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Subject: bug#66946: 30.0.50; Elisp manual section 17.4 describes an obsolete variable
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:52:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkM+V4YL7ZxGurx4=tMV4Z2Aqszgpoh9spU9X9UM_W5cg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnda48wwrsESj17fnicqjJ2P+AC3rw2JwdEJXNdmS6_2g@mail.gmail.com>
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> The manual says:
>>>
>>> _Experience shows that using dynamic function loading provides
>>> benefits that are hardly measurable, so this feature is deprecated
>>> since Emacs 27.1._
>>>
>>> Stefan M, any comments here?
>>
>> Nothing specific, no.
>>
>>> Is it time to actually mark this stuff obsolete?
>>
>> Hmm... isn't it marked obsolete already?
>> Or did you mean to ask if it's time to throw away the corresponding code?
>
> You're right. Not sure how I missed that...
Taking another look at this.
Why not throw away the code if it's hardly measurable? We could make it
a no-op in Emacs 30.1, and then just remove it from the manual. It's
already been obsolete for three major versions by then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-11 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-05 9:37 bug#66946: 30.0.50; Elisp manual section 17.4 describes an obsolete variable Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-05 14:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-05 23:24 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-06 0:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 21:52 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-08-12 6:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-17 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-17 12:53 ` Stefan Kangas
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