From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 23:18:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <11437E00-8970-4908-A900-0438A248428D@traduction-libre.org> <75254771-9303-4982-AB60-F92AF7AC6454@traduction-libre.org> <11AC1ECE-C120-4CBE-93C7-6FD82AF12299@traduction-libre.org> <18BA1545-091A-454E-B459-DEB96071D048@traduction-libre.org> <4f5da1c3-1311-44ca-80f7-942d9a0537b4@default> <0BBC80E8-7A74-4DB4-8C13-AF2AAFF04B4B@traduction-libre.org> <85aacf7d-51cc-420a-a53b-f16f2e497106@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="92925"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 05:19:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLRl-000O4F-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 05:19:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45484 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLRk-0002HA-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLR2-0001CJ-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLR1-0004pU-9N; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLQz-0004Un-K8; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:18:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <85aacf7d-51cc-420a-a53b-f16f2e497106@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 11 May 2020 08:13:13 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249926 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. ]]] > And in that context, `require', `provide', and > "features" are important constructs to document. I agree. A package facility does not obsolete those functions. Please don't remove them from the Lisp manuals. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)