Re: Wrong use of "path" in spam.el

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Dec 27 2006, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On 27 Dec 2006, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote:
>> Maybe we should better use `defvaralias' instead of
>> `make-obsolete-variable'?  I wasn't sure which one is more suitable
>> here.
>
> I'm OK with either; I don't know the right one though.

I changed it to use define-obsolete-variable-alias' now:

,----[ (info "(elisp)Variable Aliases") ]
|    Variable aliases are convenient for replacing an old name for a
| variable with a new name.  `make-obsolete-variable' declares that the
| old name is obsolete and therefore that it may be removed at some stage
| in the future.
| [...]
|    You can make two variables synonyms and declare one obsolete at the
| same time using the macro `define-obsolete-variable-alias'.
`----

We can't use the argument WHEN, because XEmacs 21.4 doesn't support
it.

> That was all, I didn't know if we need to ask before making such
> changes since they are not really bug fixes.

I'm quite sure that non-conformance to GNU standards counts as a bug
in Richard's opinion.

Bye, Reiner.
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