Re: Please rename trusted-content to trusted-contents

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:42:31 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> >> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:23:32 -0500
> >>
> >> "Contents" and "content" are two different words, and for this
> >> meaning, "contents" is correct.  It means the contents of the
> >> file, and that's what we refer to here.
> >>
> >> Please let's rename that symbol now before it gets into a release.
> >
> > The Emacs 30.0.93 pretest was already uploaded with "trusted-content"
> > in it.  So if we rename it now, we will need to support both
> > spellings, via defvaralias.  I'm not sure the problem is acute enough
> > to justify such last-minute changes.
> 
> Do we really maintain backwards-compatibility with all pretest releases
> also?  I usually consider them more like development branches: used for
> testing, not for production.

We don't usually maintain compatibility in those cases, but this
situation is special: we are very close to the release, and I don't
want to waste one more pretest because we renamed the variable.

> In any case, I think using the right word is better, so if we need a
> defvaralias then so be it, IMO.  I don't see how it could hurt, and we
> could even define-obsolete-variable-alias.

>From where I stand, if we decide to rename it, we must have a
defvaralias for the other name.

And FWIW, renaming doesn't sound very important to me: Emacs is full
of mis-spellings and English usage that is not 110% correct, so I
don't see this as a catastrophe.  After all, Stefan's English is
either his first language or close, so if he is okay with that name,
we are not in a bad place.