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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 31852-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:34:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e621adb5-7caf-256f-35cc-6c51979cfd05@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9gazses.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If nobody uses the function, I see no gain at all, because obsoleting
> a function tells those who use it not to.

If Emacs has useless and confusing features that consume documentation space and 
implementation resources, that is a net harm to current and future users. 
Omitting such features is therefore a net gain to users. The benefit to users by 
omitting useless and confusing features is worth the maintenance cost to us of 
obsoleting these features.

That being said, it appears I haven't convinced you to obsolete memory-limit, so 
I installed patch 1 but not patch 2 and am closing the bug report.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-16 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16  1:33 bug#31852: Make memory-limit obsolete Paul Eggert
2018-06-16  6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 13:38   ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 15:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 15:34       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-06-16 15:51         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:27           ` Paul Eggert

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