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Re: Directory Servers in Tools menu
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Directory Servers in Tools menu |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:17:39 +0300 |
> From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:35:20 -0400
>
> I looked at this. There are definitely some simplifications that I'd
> like to implement eventually, like deprecating then eliminating the
> eudc-options file, and allowing a single search to span multiple
> directory servers. However, an easy first step is deprecating then
> removing XEmacs support. Can I push this NEWS entry to the emacs-26
> branch?
>
> Thomas
>
> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index 4b1f673a7c..f014bff99c 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ with blank space to eshell history.
> major release of Emacs. Users of BBDB 2.x should plan to upgrade to
> BBDB 3.x.
>
> +*** Support for XEmacs is deprecated and will be removed in the next
> +major release of Emacs. XEmacs users can continue using this or a
> +prior version of EUDC.
Thanks, but I don't understand what is the practical meaning of such
an entry: it doesn't really reflect any real change in Emacs. The
deprecation doesn't have any expression in the code; using the code
you want to deprecate will not generate any warnings to the effect
that these features are deprecated.
What I suggest instead is to actually remove those parts from the
master branch and mention the removal in NEWS on that branch.