bug#44171: Make cwarn.el obsolete

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 44171 + wontfix
close 44171
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Flymake is a much larger package which affects the workflow in many
> ways.  Telling people to use Flymake when all they need is what
> cwarn.el provides would be like deprecating Outline mode because we
> have Org, for example.

I see your point.

>> To be clear, I'm not on a quest to remove actually useful features.  I
>> just stumbled across cwarn.el while looking for stuff that need tests
>> and/or should be converted to lexical-binding.
>
> I'm very happy with its functionality, FWIW.  Thank you for taking
> care of it.

Thanks for sharing your input.  It seems like the logical thing here is
to close this bug report, so I'm doing that now.