Re: [NonGNU ELPA] new package: eglot-inactive-regions

[Philip Kaludercic]

Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I would try something of the form like
>>>>>
>>>>>   (if (fboundp 'new-function)
>>>>>       (new-function ...)
>>>>>     (old-function ...))
>>>>>
>>>>> If on the other hand there has already been a new release of Eglot with
>>>>> these commands, then just depend on that version and the issue would
>>>>> resolve itself.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CC-ing João.
>>>>
>>>> I pushed the suggested change but I still get the compile warnings about
>>>> deprecated functions. I'd like to keep supporting emacs-29, should I
>>>> just disregard the warning?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the ignorance, how would the dependency on a specific eglot
>>>> version work now that it's in core?
>>>> Does it require the users to have additional repos enabled?
>>>>
>>>> Sounds strange to me that we have macros to deprecate functions but no
>>>> mechanism to automatically switch to the new one if it's just a
>>>> rename. Am I missing something obvious?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Filippo
>>>
>>> How about something like:
>>>
>>>   ;; fallback to deprecated eglot functions
>>>   (when (version< emacs-version "30")
>>>     (defalias 'eglot-uri-to-path 'eglot--uri-to-path)
>>>     (defalias 'eglot-range-region 'eglot--range-region))
>>>
>>> or even something similar with a check on eglot version?
>>
>> That can be dangerous if other packages do fboundp checks and infer too
>> much from that.  I would try to see if adding `declare-function's could
>> help suppress the warnings?
>
> Nope, the only solution working so far is to call the deprecated
> functions with `with-no-warnings'.
>
> Guess I'll go with this. I'd be fine with the warnings too if we didn't
> have the annoying habit of scaring the end users with them :-)

I don't have your source code available right now, my last suggestion
would be to use `with-suppressed-warnings' where  you can suppress
specific obsoletion warnings, but that requires Emacs 27.1 or newer.

> Still open to any better idea!
>
> Filippo