Re: How to warn about obsolete file in ELPA package

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> We would like to emit an obsoletion warning when dash-functional.el is
>>> used, similar to the one for lisp/obsolete/* libraries.
>> I think you can get exactly this behavior by placing the file in
>> a directory called `obsolete`.
> I don't think this will work with MELPA which bundles dash-functional as
> its own single-file package.

You'd have to make it a tarball, yes, but AFAIK MELPA supports tarballs
just fine, so I don't see it as a problem (but then again, I don't see
the benefit of having a package in MELPA when it's already in GNU ELPA,
so there are clearly things that are beyond my understanding ;-).


        Stefan