Re: LDAP extended and revamped

Robert> Hrvoje Niksic writes: Robert> Wouldn't define-{obsolete,compatible}-function-alias be better here? Robert> Or are they intended only for 'core' emacs functions? Of course I've been concerned by this problem. But I don't know what to do for the particular case of ldap-search. Currently ldap-search is the name of the high-level search function (vs. ldap-search-internal which is the low-level function). But according to the recent discussion on the subject, what we want is the low-level function to be called ldap-search and the high-level one called something else (my patch proposes ldap-search-entries). In this particular case I don't know how to rename backward compatible. That's the reason why I didn't provide compatibility aliases at all, compatibility will be broken anyway... :-(( I am not satisfied by this but I've seen no workaround. I don't know how many packages are currently using the LDAP API. I know of two: EUDC which I maintain myself and W3. As I said, I can provide a compatible version of EUDC as soon as necessary and I guess Bill is responsive enough these days to do the same. I just hope the consequences of this incompatible change will be minor, the LDAP API has been out since version 21.0 only. Oscar