From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some candidates for obsoletion
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 07:24:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1WqKvI-0005Sw-Vz@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <erha48c9he.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:25 -0400)
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> please verify that with the users but before you do anything to them.
> Please post on help-gnu-emacs and ask the user community to verify this.
I don't see the need. I'm asking here.
This list is not a representative sample of Emacs users.
Files in lisp/obsolete are just as usable as when they lived in another
directory.
It is always at least several Emacs releases/years between "move something to
obsolete/" and "delete it altogether".
True, but if this is meant to trigger feedback from users, it should
ask them for feedback. How about setting them up so that if someone
invokes them they display a message "Please write to
emacs-devel@gnu.org if you don't want this to get deleted some day."?
Or is the idea to leave them permanently in the obsolete dir?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 2:02 Some candidates for obsoletion Glenn Morris
2014-05-29 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-29 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2014-05-30 1:59 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-30 11:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-05-30 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-31 9:32 ` Richard Stallman
2014-05-29 8:51 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-05-29 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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