RE: On obsoleting defcustoms

[Stefan Kangas]

[[ For context, I have just filed this bug:
   bug#44598: [PATCH] Do not show obsolete options in customize ]]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> If people are concerned about someone continuing to use
> something that's obsolete, why not just have Customize give
> a warning/message saying that the option is obsolete

That's what we do now.  See `M-x customize-group RET browse-url RET' in
Emacs 27 for a bad case of what that might look like.

> That's assuming that Emacs takes the (unusual, IME) point of
> view that, once declared obsolete, something should no longer
> be usable.

It's still usable with the patch, just not advertised.