Re: master 2704ec54fd3: (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters

[Po Lu]

Stefan Monnier via Mailing list for Emacs changes <emacs-diffs@gnu.org>
writes:

> branch: master
> commit 2704ec54fd3e33a0914b06ad762be42c4956110d
> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>
>     (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove ancient converters
>     
>     * lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el (gnus-convert-old-newsrc): Remove converters
>     from 2004 and before.
>     * lisp/gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el: Delete file.

What prompted this change?  It's not exactly a mortal sin for code to be
old or even ancient, and if there is a sounder reason to remove this
file (most of all if in connection to the scratch/interpreted-function
branch), we ought to consider the impact of whatever changes are
concerned on Lisp code at large, of which legacy-gnus-agent.el is just
one specimen, before hastening to remove offenders from Emacs proper.