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bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd a
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Drew Adams |
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bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional |
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Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:10:20 -0800 (PST) |
> > It misleads. There is no need for such a "warning" - nothing to
> > warn users about, since the argument is optional. It serves
> > no useful purpose.
>
> While the argument is still optional now, it won't be, at some point
> in the future.
Why should it?
> And there's a good reason to require this argument: people
> should annotate each obsoletion with the version when it happened.
That is *not* a good reason to make the argument mandatory.
That is a good reason to document why they should do so and
thus encourage them to do so. Making such an argument
mandatory for that reason alone is quite misguided.
> That change was made 5 years ago; let it go.
It is trivial to fix the mistake, no matter how long ago
it was made. Again, there is no good reason *not* to fix
this.
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Drew Adams, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Drew Adams, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Drew Adams, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Drew Adams, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Drew Adams, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/12/21
- bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional,
Drew Adams <=