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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages |
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Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:49:55 -0500 |
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> > > For example, a package that is declared obsolete during the
development
> > > of Emacs 25 would be moved to obsolete, and a message would be added
to
> > > say that "<package> is obsolete and will be removed in Emacs 27". It
> > > couldn't be removed in Emacs 26 because it didn't start Emacs 25 in
> > > obsolete.
> >
> > I agree. But we should not be rigit about deleting it in Emacs 27,
> > either. Depending on how the feature is used, we might want to save
> > it longer. Features used in Lisp code may need to remain longer.
> Could we instead not move things into obsolete if we didn't think they
> were removable?
Moving them to 'obsolete' would be done at the first step, according to
that proposal. The question I am raising is when to delete them entirely.
> Also, can you give an example of something that is obsolete but
> shouldn't be removed? That might help me understand your concern.
defadvice might be a good example.
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- A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/10
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Phillip Lord, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/12
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Phillip Lord, 2016/01/14
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/15
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/16
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/18
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/19
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Phillip Lord, 2016/01/19