From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 29309@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only option
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:35:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANnVG6mW1t0bMVPLi7_ir1NjCzE6BPQscHRfFgJGzWgt08MFWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po8jnvix.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:
>
>>>> Let us please make Gnus a better citizen by following the RFC’s
>>>> recommendation and removing the legacy form.
>>>
>>> I see no reason to remove the legacy form, unless you want to go to
>>> the trouble of writing code to nag people to change their setup. You
>>> might have an argument for changing the default to be 'angles though.
>>
>> I don’t follow. Why would people need to change their setup? We could
>> just discard the option altogether and always use 'angles, couldn’t
>> we?
>
> Ah, you want to remove the configuration variable entirely. I think
> we'd have to obsolete it first, wait for a release cycle, and then
> maybe remove it. Removing variables tends not to be fast for Emacs.
Could we make it ineffective before removing it entirely? I think
making it ineffective could be done right away.
--
Best regards,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-15 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-15 18:37 bug#29309: 25.2; Gnus: please make message-from-style 'angles the only option Michael Stapelberg
2017-11-15 19:03 ` Robert Pluim
2017-11-15 20:00 ` Michael Stapelberg
2017-11-15 20:20 ` Robert Pluim
2017-11-15 21:35 ` Michael Stapelberg [this message]
2017-11-15 22:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-11 21:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 13:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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