From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-to-unibyte in image-jpeg-p
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:51:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwovskfas.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 837entat0t.fsf@gnu.org
>> > Maybe so, but I prefer Paul's way. We should be very careful not to
>> > remove features hastily, without due heads-up to possible users.
>> We could remove it from master and see: if noone screams before the
>> release of 27.1 I think it'd be safe to say that it's indeed not used.
> That reminds me of an old joke: if you want to know whether a chip is
> in order, plug it into mains: if it explodes, it was in order.
FWIW I'm in favor of applying this principle fairly systematically, e.g.:
functions, vars, and packages declared obsolete in the previous release
should be completely disabled on the master branch (probably with
a mechanism to re-enable them individually, but this mechanism should be
somewhat costly/annoying to the user). Otherwise it's too easy for package
authors to miss/ignore obsolescence warnings and then be "surprised"
when we finally remove the feature several years later.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-24 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-23 10:21 string-to-unibyte in image-jpeg-p Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-23 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-23 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-23 20:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-23 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-23 20:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-24 8:51 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-24 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-24 15:31 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-24 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-24 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-25 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-25 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-25 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-25 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-26 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 10:40 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-31 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 15:17 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-24 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-24 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-05-25 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-26 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-24 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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