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url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 19822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Subject: bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:44:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > I don't feel very strongly about this, but I'm curious: Why don't you
> > want to obsolete at least some of them?  I think they add user
> > confusion and are just not very helpful.
>
> How would obsoleting them help avoid that confusion?

I think in at least two ways:

1. Obsoleting is a fairly strong sign that this is code that it's
probably better to avoid.

2. AFAIU, the point of obsoleting a file is to eventually remove it.
If it doesn't exist, it can't confuse anyone.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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