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Re: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions?

From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: when do we remove backward compatibility definitions?
Date: 2017年11月21日 22:36:16 +0200 
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: 2017年11月21日 12:18:41 -0800
>
> On 11/21/2017 12:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Let's instead solve practical problems with such issues. Are there
> > any practical problems here? If so, what are they?
>
> The practical problem is that when we have cruft in the Emacs source 
> code that makes maintenance harder
No, we don't have any cruft, not from my POV.
> My attempt at writing a guideline for supporting obsolete Emacs features 
> is intended to be along similar lines. It is not meant to be 
> prescriptive and so I shouldn't have used the word "policy" to describe 
> it. It is merely meant as a common-sense guideline for when Emacs 
> features are so obsolete that they can be removed if that simplifies 
> maintenance.
Sorry, I'm not interested in discussing abstract policies that have no
specific problems behind them. It's a waste of our time. If there is
a specific problem with the variables Sam saw, let's discuss those
instead.
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