From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some candidates for obsoletion Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401415179 599 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2014 01:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 01:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 03:59:32 2014 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 1WqC6W-0004Se-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 03:59:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqC6V-0004rc-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqC6S-0004rR-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqC6R-00039V-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqC6R-00039R-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqC6P-0000cV-UH; Thu, 29 May 2014 21:59:25 -0400 X-Spook: kilderkin MD4 Forte Plame Islam Abduganievich Karimov Abu X-Ran: ..|K7UAF-U3~ErPZK8oPjbk{vuiSx%o(Hd%?:{,}K-kE(0*4Wj-L,MB;B$)rq):N5NCiDf X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:172189 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > 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. 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". If someone sees a mode they passionately love get moved to obsolete/, I assume this will prompt them to register an objection, at which point we can decide whether to un-obsolete it.