From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecated browsers in browse-url.el Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:26:11 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286264966 18679 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 07:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 07:49:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 09:49:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P32H2-0003Wl-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:49:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P32Gy-0003RA-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35242 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P32Gq-0003Om-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P32Gl-0000B4-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P32Gl-0000Au-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P32Gh-0003Qx-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 58.217.146.172 ([58.217.146.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:59 +0200 Original-Received: from chenggao by 58.217.146.172 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.217.146.172 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d54q6MenRlMxYzN+V76AVe2AIfM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131357 Archived-At: *On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:11:31 -0400 * Also sprach Eli Zaretskii : >> From: CHENG Gao >> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:15:10 +0800 >> >> I am wondering if some browsers should be removed from browse-url.el >> since they are ceased projects for many years. Such as Mosaic, Netscape, >> Mozilla, Galeon. > > Why is it a problem that these are still supported? What's the urge > to remove them? > >> And reference to some browsers could be updated since >> they are superceded by other projects - Chimera by Camino and Arena by >> Amaya. > > Patches are welcome. Not a problem to me. I found dev team is removing some obsolete codes so I ask if these are proper candidates for removal.