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29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24

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Message #47 received at 50999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 50999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#50999: 29.0.50; Deleting libraries obsolete since Emacs 24
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:27:45 +0100

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> What about what I proposed, i.e. not byte-compiling those files, and in
> general paying no attention to them?

I don't think that's feasible -- if something breaks, then people will
be reporting bugs about those things.  Not byte-compiling them would
just be more work in the long run, because we'd be discovering the
issues later, and not when somebody does a change that requires the
other files to change.

> What about an ELPA package, playing the same role as the dumping ground
> folder?

If somebody wants to maintain vip.el externally (to take an example),
then we could indeed put it in GNU ELPA.  But if not, then it's the
same -- we're maintaining the things that's included in the ELPA repo.

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