From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: policy, recommendations regarding `cl-*' Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:11:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83pq59hl5w.fsf@gnu.org> <78C072FCB2534C21835E7E6788B10624@us.oracle.com> <83fw65grge.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348668732 31628 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2012 14:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 16:12:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGsLX-0003tX-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:12:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGsLS-0007B6-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGsLH-0007A1-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGsLC-0001Or-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:25832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGsL2-0001NM-Up; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q8QEBgjs017072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:11:43 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q8QEBgZt003746 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:11:42 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt108.oracle.com (abhmt108.oracle.com [141.146.116.60]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q8QEBgPq018855; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.176.54) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:11:41 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83fw65grge.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Ac2buo53MPn7AOkBSLia1QPlIPdOLwANEt1A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153585 Archived-At: > > 1. That's certainly what I am doing for now, at least. But > > deprecation typically expresses an intention to later desupport. > > My question is really what is recommended for supporting multiple > > Emacs releases when `loop' etc. are no longer supported. > > If that ever happens in your lifetime, Well, long life to you too, Eli! > you can always add to your packages a compatibility layer > that simply introduces back the aliases we have now. Ugh.