On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 5:37 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it really worth it to go through a separate deprecation step? > xemacs users can switch to emacs after xemacs is removed. I see that > you are concerned about the plugins, but maybe it's just better to > drop xemacs and the plugins in one go. If we notify the plugins' > maintainers now, they'll still have a few months to try to port them > to emacs (if suitable and porting is actually necessary). > Normally, I'd be in favour of "dragging out" the removal a bit, but > in this case I think we don't need to, because of the relatively > close replacement and the small number of users. I honestly have no idea how many users there are. I have gotten bug reports from time to time over the years, but it is possible that the number of users has shrunk down to near zero, in which case I might be worrying for nothing. My reasoning for this change proposal was two-fold. First, it prevents the scope of the work from creeping while I'm trying to remove all of the XEmacs-related bits from Fedora. Second, it may flush out anybody who will say, "You can pry my XEmacs from my cold dead fingers!" If anybody like that appears, then I get to say, "Well then, you get to maintain it!" and hand over the packages. :-) Does anybody else have an opinion on this? If the consensus is that deprecation is unnecessary, then I'll start contacting package maintainers about dropping XEmacs support from their packages. Thanks, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
