From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247394515 5208 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 10:28:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 12:28:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MPwID-0002Co-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:28:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPwIC-0002Bj-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPwHq-0002AR-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MPwHh-00028j-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MPwHf-000288-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43484) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPwHf-0007R0-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:27:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MPw2H-0006YD-7X; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:11:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:40:24 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112362 Archived-At: Why not? More specifically, what do you think would break if we did something along the lines of: (define-obsolete-function-alias 'mail-mode 'message-mode) I may need to maintain Emacs again; past history shows other maintainers come and go. If that happens, I want to have Mail mode, not depend on something that is part of Gnus. Please don't mess this up. I am considering moving some code (including mml) outside Gnus so that Gnus will not be an issue for its future maintenance. (I've done that to other packages before.)