Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > The problem with warnings is that using
  > >
  > > ./configure && make 
  > >
  > > is quite common, so seeing the warning is almost impossible.
  > >   
  > 
  > What about using a --force-obsolete option to configure to force it to
  > continue past the warning, rather than requiring users to edit the
  > configure script themselves?

Too disruptive for the configure script so close to the release.
And this is designed to force users take an action.
(BTW, Stefan originally wanted this to be #error in src/[ms]/*.h)
This is for stuff that is quite likely dead (things like HPUX running on
m68k).  Why do people all of a sudden care about this???