Re: [PATCH] support for accessing CPU/core count (processor-count)

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 11 Oct 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>,  Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:12:22 -0400
>> 
>> > Note that Paul already pushed the gnulib nproc solution to emacs-28.
>> 
>> Why emacs-28?
>> This is purely a new feature, and I can't see any urgency that would
>> justify bypassing the general rule to only push bug fixes to emacs-28.
>
> 100% agreement.

Indeed.

The followup changes in commit 1a1b206a8b33 result in `w32-get-nproc'
being removed, so should there be an obsolete alias for this function ?
Otherwise users will see it removed from emacs without any deprecation
period.

    AndyM