Subject: Re: bug#39169: 28.0.50; Confusing obsolete variable warnings in eieio-defclass-autoload

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:30:56 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> But now I'm wondering why Michael isn't just setting/binding
> eieio-backward-compatibility to nil?  Then the warnings would go away,
> and he probably aren't using the compat symbols, anyway?

AFAIR, the situation is: I can do that file locally in my library, yes.

But any user of the library will still see those warnings.  It's likely
that this user uses the name "buffer-note" for a buffer-note, and the
warning text is meaningless for anybody who doesn't know what's going
on.

Michael.