From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
49631@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49631: 28.0.50; dired-hide-details-mode Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:48:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmZaskx9jPjA-+-qW2jUgfdE=ke2Of23f4PsSKQuEPU2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v956o18e.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:57:21 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> C-h f dired-hide-details-mode says
>>>
>>> Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4.
>>>
>>> Why doesn't it _know_ precisely which versiob that function was
>>> introduced in? It was only a few versions ago, so this was not
>>> something lost in prehistory. What causes the uncertainty?
>>
>> The feature works by searching the etc/NEWS* files, and finding a
>> symbol there doesn't necessarily mean the Emacs release in which it's
>> mentioned is the actual release where the symbol was introduced. For
>> example, we sometimes forget to announce features and only do that
>> later. Thus the uncertainty and the cautious language.
>
> And Richard may not know that we've discussed, innumerable times, whether
> we should maintain an actual registry to avoid the guessing, and we've
> concluded that this would be too much work.
>
> Which is still the conclusion.
(With copy to Steve Purcell.)
Steve Purcell has some code to do this, or at least parts of it, here:
https://github.com/purcell/package-lint/tree/master/tools
It comes out to this:
https://github.com/purcell/package-lint/blob/master/data/stdlib-changes
Perhaps Steve would be willing to contribute his work, or even help us
integrate his tools into Emacs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-19 0:08 bug#49631: 28.0.50; dired-hide-details-mode Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4 Richard Stallman
2021-07-19 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-19 13:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 11:48 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-29 11:54 ` Steve Purcell
2021-07-21 0:52 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-21 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-21 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-21 16:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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