From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64153 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wrong use of "path" in spam.el Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:21 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167256204 6324 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 21:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12676@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 27 22:50:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gzgew-0002PA-2A for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:50:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzgeq-0006dY-9o; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:49:56 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzgeo-0006d2-Ig for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:49:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzgeg-0003hM-D4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:49:54 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gzgef-0008WL-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gzgef-0005t2-KT for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML;)7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+;CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf,d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7ar07zLavX9Szyl/mdMlYYvTcq0= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64153 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/