Hrvoje Niksic writes:
Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch> writes:
> *** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
> Due to the function renaming, this patch introduces an incompatible
> change that breaks the packages using the current LDAP API, most
> notably EUDC and W3.
Renaming doesn't necessarily entail breaking backward compatibility.
If you want to be kind to your users, define functions with old names
that do nothing except call the new functions.
Wouldn't define-{obsolete,compatible}-function-alias be better here?
Or are they intended only for 'core' emacs functions?
Robert
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