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

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Message #53 received at 19822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Subject: Re: bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is
 associated with the URI
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:06:00 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.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.
>
> I think an across-the-board obsoletion is easier to communicate than
> doing it piece by piece.

Good point, thanks.

> > Personally, I wouldn't mind a middle ground here: to only obsolete the
> > very low hanging fruit.  To be more concrete, it doesn't seem to me
> > that it would take much effort to immediately obsolete url-irc.el,
> > url-news.el, url-imap.el and url-ns.el.
>
> Oh, I missed irc: and ns:.  :-/  Yes, those are pretty useless...

Given the above, how about just obsoleting url-ns.el?  This file
handles Netscape configuration files, and there should be no problem
communicating the irrelevancy of that.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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