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: Feature freezes and Emacs 25 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:57:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56259FDD.8040401@dancol.org> <87zizeme8k.fsf@tromey.com> <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <837fluqkd1.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4e5lp64.fsf@gnu.org> <3925ea89-7797-4c45-9418-c2164ec3f753@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447262071 9238 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 17:14:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 18:14:18 2015 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 1ZwYyO-0007Cv-Da for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYyO-000710-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYwJ-0005V7-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYtz-0007pk-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYia-0003R4-Ow; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYiZ-0002sf-Gd; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:57:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <3925ea89-7797-4c45-9418-c2164ec3f753@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:13:39 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:194101 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I think we should wait years to remove obsolete features. Hurrying would increase the hassle this causes for users who like them, and we can afford to wait. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.