Yep, happy to discuss. The case for removals is that some symbols were actually
removed in one Emacs version and then re-added later.
My overall technique is to load everything that I can, dump all the symbols I
found, and then diff those dumps between Emacs versions. Using my nix-emacs-ci
buil
1 sep. 2024 kl. 00.26 skrev Stefan Kangas :
> For symbols that are in symbol-releases.eld, which means we are actually
> sure about the addition, shouldn't the help text be changed from
>
>Probably introduced at or before Emacs version XX.Y.
>
> to something more like
>
>Added in Emacs
> Cc: st...@sanityinc.com, Stefan Monnier
> From: Stefan Kangas
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:26:58 -0700
>
> Steve Purcell (in Cc) has been maintaining a relatively complete symbol
> to version database here:
>
> https://github.com/purcell/package-lint/blob/master/data/stdlib-changes
>
> No
> Note that his version keeps track of also of `feature`s, and not just
> additions but removals as well. It would be nice if our version could
> be extended to do the same. Perhaps Steve has some code or ideas that
> he would be willing to contribute.
Maybe we could offer some way to show all t
Mattias Engdegård writes:
> `describe-function` sometimes gives incorrect information about when
> certain functions were first introduced. NEWS.unknown can be used to
> fix some problems but it only works in one direction and is unable to
> help when a function name appears too early.
>
> A robu
> From: Mattias Engdegård
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:13:48 +0200
> Cc: monn...@iro.umontreal.ca,
> 72...@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 31 aug. 2024 kl. 12.10 skrev Eli Zaretskii :
>
> > Should we perhaps mention this in some admin/notes/ files, like
> > perhaps the procedure described in make-tarball.tx
31 aug. 2024 kl. 12.10 skrev Eli Zaretskii :
> Should we perhaps mention this in some admin/notes/ files, like
> perhaps the procedure described in make-tarball.txt?
Not sure what to say and where so I'll leave that for others. This hack is a
bit reactive in nature, but could become a little ver
> Stefan, any comments?
No, that looks fine to me.
Stefan
> Cc: Stefan Monnier
> From: Mattias Engdegård
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:35:41 +0200
>
> `describe-function` sometimes gives incorrect information about when certain
> functions were first introduced. NEWS.unknown can be used to fix some
> problems but it only works in one direction and is u
