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

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

On Wed, Dec 27 2006, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On 26 Dec 2006, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote:
>> [...] `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.  

Maybe we should better use `defvaralias' instead of
`make-obsolete-variable'?  I wasn't sure which one is more suitable
here.

> But the manual will also have to be updated,

AFAICS, it's only the following change (installed in v5-10):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- gnus.texi	26 Dec 2006 19:10:32 +0100	6.603.2.107
+++ gnus.texi	27 Dec 2006 17:38:39 +0100	
@@ -23952,7 +23952,7 @@
 the default value of @samp{spam}.
 @end defvar
 
-@defvar spam-ifile-database-path
+@defvar spam-ifile-database
 
 This is the filename for the ifile database.  It is not specified by
 default, so ifile will use its own default database name.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> and we need to check with the Emacs maintainers regarding the 22
> prerelease.

The changes will automatically be included in the next pretest after
Miles next sync.  Do you have something else in mind?

Bye, Reiner.
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