[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated wi
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:06:00 +0200 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > I don't feel very strongly about this, but I'm curious: Why don't you
> > want to obsolete at least some of them? I think they add user
> > confusion and are just not very helpful.
>
> I think an across-the-board obsoletion is easier to communicate than
> doing it piece by piece.
Good point, thanks.
> > Personally, I wouldn't mind a middle ground here: to only obsolete the
> > very low hanging fruit. To be more concrete, it doesn't seem to me
> > that it would take much effort to immediately obsolete url-irc.el,
> > url-news.el, url-imap.el and url-ns.el.
>
> Oh, I missed irc: and ns:. :-/ Yes, those are pretty useless...
Given the above, how about just obsoleting url-ns.el? This file
handles Netscape configuration files, and there should be no problem
communicating the irrelevancy of that.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/01
- bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI,
Stefan Kangas <=