From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong use of "path" in spam.el
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:53:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g694prha1io.fsf@dhcp-65-162.kendall.corp.akamai.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9vejyh89f.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue\, 26 Dec 2006 18\:33\:32 +0100")
On 26 Dec 2006, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote:
> in GNU, we use the term "path" only for a list of directories to
> search, like the value of PATH. So we should *not* use "path" in in
> all those `spam-*-path' variables and doc strings. We should rename
> those variables to `spam-*-program' and mark the former as obsolete.
>
> I'm not 100% sure that it's a good idea to do this now (while Emacs 22
> is in pretest), but OTOH spam.el was not part of Emacs 21 so it's
> probably better to do it now so that Emacs 22 will have the right
> names. Opinions?
I'm OK with that. Since the old variable names will work today, I
expect the support issues to be minimal. But the manual will also
have to be updated, and we need to check with the Emacs maintainers
regarding the 22 prerelease.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-27 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-26 17:33 Reiner Steib
2006-12-27 13:53 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2006-12-27 16:50 ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-27 19:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2006-12-27 21:49 ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-27 23:31 ` Miles Bader
2006-12-28 14:57 ` Reiner Steib
2006-12-28 19:55 ` Reiner Steib
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