From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:07:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aIqFM-0001tr-PG@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28u3wak2g.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andrew Hyatt on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:09:27 -0500)
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> For example, a package that is declared obsolete during the development
> of Emacs 25 would be moved to obsolete, and a message would be added to
> say that "<package> is obsolete and will be removed in Emacs 27". It
> couldn't be removed in Emacs 26 because it didn't start Emacs 25 in
> obsolete.
I agree. But we should not be rigit about deleting it in Emacs 27,
either. Depending on how the feature is used, we might want to save
it longer. Features used in Lisp code may need to remain longer.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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2016-01-11 3:09 A proposal for removing obsolete packages Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-11 14:41 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-11 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-12 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-19 5:28 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-20 7:25 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 17:05 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-20 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 19:52 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 20:38 ` Andrés Ramírez
2016-01-20 20:46 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 21:03 ` Andrés Ramírez
2016-01-21 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 21:22 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-21 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-23 21:15 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-23 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-24 1:02 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-24 1:08 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-24 1:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-24 21:44 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-25 2:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 4:41 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-25 15:37 ` Entering Unicode characters Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 17:20 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2016-01-25 17:51 ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-25 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 1:24 ` Vivek Dasmohapatra
2016-01-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 18:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-25 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-26 8:38 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-01-25 21:36 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-25 22:17 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 22:26 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-26 9:39 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:55 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-26 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 21:41 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-27 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 6:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-28 23:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-29 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 15:51 ` handa
2016-01-29 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 16:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-30 3:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-30 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 7:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-30 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 12:16 ` handa
2016-01-30 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 11:31 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 12:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-26 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 17:08 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-01-26 17:37 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-26 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 11:56 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-06 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 13:59 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-06 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-12 11:20 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-07 18:33 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-07 18:42 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-08 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 14:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-09 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 18:19 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-07 22:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 13:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 13:26 ` Dale Snell
2016-02-10 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 6:01 ` Alexis
2016-02-09 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-10 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 1:16 ` Alexis
2016-02-10 14:16 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-11 18:59 ` John Wiegley
[not found] ` <<E1aTINY-0007Rg-IA@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-02-10 2:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-10 4:14 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-02-10 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-10 4:17 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2016-02-08 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-12 11:32 ` Helmut Eller
2016-02-13 15:32 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1aO05V-0007eR-Kw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-26 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 13:01 ` A proposal for removing obsolete packages Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 9:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 1:03 ` Alexis
2016-01-27 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 8:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-25 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<m2a8nu46ff.fsf@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <<E1aNjCP-0004Ya-Si@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-01-25 16:04 ` Entering Unicode characters Drew Adams
2016-01-25 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 16:43 ` A proposal for removing obsolete packages John Wiegley
2016-01-26 17:32 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-03 4:45 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 5:25 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 4:07 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-01-12 5:25 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-12 21:49 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-14 5:19 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-17 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-14 23:09 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-16 4:13 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-16 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-18 18:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-19 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-19 14:54 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] <<m28u3wak2g.fsf@gmail.com>
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