From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: autoload cookies for defcustoms Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:32:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2DC911234A9B4A6ABD34459FB8C26C1C@us.oracle.com> <87fwxxoio1.fsf@gmail.com> <4d7hj99qtc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k4n8z3it.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283226379 7173 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 03:46:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wojciech Meyer , Stefan Monnier , Drew Adams , 'Emacs-Devel devel' To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 31 05:46:18 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 1OqHnd-000356-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:46:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqHnd-0000D6-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52767 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqHn7-0007t6-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqHXW-0008AR-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:49508 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqHXV-0008AK-T1; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20514D1D96; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:29:37 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ni8F1FqwqI44xr1u/ibcLPQAxgY=; b=NXn/QL Aon6QiSc74F6efwqiXw7Qfmjf5hcMT03fiT66MXnc/VNdCNpXEPht/TeBBhpKi/C mVgnN8sNZVb3gB06+3eK114xsusQFptR2psnaQWNxJokzXmJXqsp2rdxHXwOGgQ1 DMs+2Od/TqIif8V3yMTYISrSCgX5hNbrDHMQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=jSqSYVfthXnsQT/Ofc9GGY6pS2JSJ6Ld 5LUSvB+KzPQXNOmj/q2dK3/cnEdvI/9LzEGpNf3FjziBl8/V0OxPurdxDYm7OnfK joflhr/w3Ng2JeaYIP+JQjrxeKUjc79I776yOD99XKpj5tCGQu90YKVoItvchF0E Tjjadt0mpm0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2234D1D91; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:29:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [76.166.198.241]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CF64D1D8B; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:29:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:20:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F8A5F512-B4AF-11DF-A187-030CEE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:129473 Archived-At: On Mon 30 Aug 2010 16:20, Glenn Morris writes: > And there's no compatible way to get from here to there (eg you cannot > mark an autoload obsolete, not that anyone would notice anyway). Why not? Assuming you could, you could mark all autoloads as obsolete, this would present a warning to users on startup, and a couple years later you could remove the autoloads. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/