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Re: Release now?
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Marius Vollmer |
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Re: Release now? |
Date: |
26 Apr 2003 00:59:58 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Marius> Also, the deprecation mechanism should be made more
> Marius> user-oriented and be controlled with a macro like
> Marius> _GNU_SOURCE.
>
> Marius> Also also, I promised rms to keep backwards compatability
> Marius> for a long time (and I do agree that it is important).
> Marius> That means that the things that are deprecated in 1.6 and
> Marius> have already been removed from 1.8 need to be added back.
> Marius> I understand that this is an unwelcome mass of
> Marius> uninteresting work and I'm willing to do it myself, of
> Marius> course, eventually... :-/
>
> These two `also's could be closely related, couldn't they?
Yes, they are related, but they can be worked on independently. I
hope that the 'per-inclusion' activation of deprecated things can be
done without changing our current internal method of marking things as
deprecated.
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