From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas Fitzsimmons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Directory Servers in Tools menu Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tvtxva18.fsf@gnu.org> <83woytszdl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523835299 31580 195.159.176.226 (15 Apr 2018 23:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:34:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 01:34:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rAc-00087x-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rCi-0001uJ-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rB9-0001Nn-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rB6-0002wu-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]:55755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7rB6-0002w9-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id 145-v6so3325407itf.5 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:35:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fitzsim-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=XE/7dsCx2Cg4p3nDQIKPXwtv7tDRGYofmP06sjwY7C0=; b=v/qFG2MOJurRFmj9KI2OuOv6TLu7Es3mnm8s3UDHtZtQu/S5uqQYfOX0FeKhKVR0Fx WtQlqMRjrpVjgcUSFgj2f2u6tU+SqJSk5IBZbv0KM9qKVt0luOh63MrZ3GQiKMhPtjLW B+02dQpHytR+is4cv9GF2WTpnBoZAH7hkllw3QA2dpb3HqAtMIGRu16Wsoq0cJn6o8B0 eVjEpExImM/wWMij9q6Sg5zox3pLMXrTpBwj9DanDivmwn+mAqtmozKefBUaonIS5N9C 5yBfVEunsyF5Tj9+7p3lxxXI1x/f9mlRI/eJWJwl0XR9jcM+20FaCfuGRB6MS1ByBqVC WkuQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=XE/7dsCx2Cg4p3nDQIKPXwtv7tDRGYofmP06sjwY7C0=; b=IboNRmJv3Tc8HrB11N1G/uak3loUYm2rJwH+6r40zCatEiGggignzcW37RDO/euQvT 7yextHGiKPtk22GlSCEa+RAbLQJKHzdQIjw+t7RJ+TQf3UnywQIUYd9l7HKveWja9xuD oNj/TYlrwBpSdEKgj5sB5kRLy94NhOdBwbNdGuWOfs6Tr7WF7EhlSZCl7J6xgGFstJYF rwg6qYIdodaf0QwD00ZhHIqG7i9o8OiIQWevpPQH4X5I60wxviRLuY1BDmdG/xMcFUha 4yKP0RgoKefuyVKPFVj2ZORwR6DcfPCcfqVY0E3dBZp2sbmBNzNZfQ74DxpVM/8QNhQz 9aCA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCoi9sHmD9nr2FGxWFanoNau0DPx3x5j1vNjYDWDHY+6MazkDlI BWC49gZHnsKbg1P9bRCSGCVi8ggu/O0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4/NHMm1K1sRMvrKOpBjCLInLUtwLL3w97o/q09/l14NUoMLSgl7yf2tkzaSIS7ILE+rp/l9fw== X-Received: by 2002:a24:c644:: with SMTP id j65-v6mr14232989itg.109.1523835323044; Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from hp-dv5t (69-165-165-189.dsl.teksavvy.com. [69.165.165.189]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y199sm5452770iod.2.2018.04.15.16.35.21 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:35:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:53:03 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224628 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: > >> I don't use the menu bar so I've never noticed this entry before. I can >> take a look; maybe the compatibility code isn't needed anymore and we >> can remove it. At the same time, I'll see if the "Directory Servers" >> entry might be useful. > > Thanks for looking into this. > > AFAICS, the compat code is needed if we still want to pretend people are > taking code from Emacs head and using it in XEmacs. > > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/eudc/src, this is untrue for at > least a decade. Twenty years, if we believe the copyright header. I looked at this. There are definitely some simplifications that I'd like to implement eventually, like deprecating then eliminating the eudc-options file, and allowing a single search to span multiple directory servers. However, an easy first step is deprecating then removing XEmacs support. Can I push this NEWS entry to the emacs-26 branch? Thomas diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 4b1f673a7c..f014bff99c 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ with blank space to eshell history. major release of Emacs. Users of BBDB 2.x should plan to upgrade to BBDB 3.x. +*** Support for XEmacs is deprecated and will be removed in the next +major release of Emacs. XEmacs users can continue using this or a +prior version of EUDC. + ** eww *** New 'M-RET' command for opening a link at point in a new eww buffer.