From 9ae1c2762d7f42a775e7623d9676ce4f7fa3c8f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Fitzsimmons Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 21:41:51 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] EUDC: Outline deprecation plans in NEWS * etc/NEWS (EUDC): Mention deprecation plans. --- etc/NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index d38ccadba64..dc758f0bc83 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1996,6 +1996,26 @@ It narrows to the current node. ** EUDC ++++ +*** Deprecations planned for next release. +After Emacs 29.1, some aspects of EUDC will be deprecated. The goal +of these deprecations is to simplify EUDC server configuration by +making 'eudc-server-hotlist' the only place to add servers. There +will not be a need to set the server using the 'eudc-set-server' +function. Instead, the 'eudc-server-hotlist' variable should be +customized to have an entry for the server. The plan is to obsolete +the 'eudc-hotlist' editor since Customize is sufficient for changing +'eudc-server-hotlist'. How the 'eudc-server' variable works in this +context is to-be-determined; it can't be removed, because that would +break compatibility, but it may become synchronized with +'eudc-server-hotlist' so that 'eudc-server' is always equal to (first +eudc-server-hotlist). The first entry in 'eudc-server-hotlist' is the +first server tried by 'eudc-expand-try-all'. The hotlist +simplification will allow 'eudc-query-form' to show a drop down of +possible servers, instead of requiring a call to 'eudc-set-server' +like it does in this release. The default value of +'eudc-ignore-options-file' will be changed from nil to t. + +++ *** New user option 'eudc-ignore-options-file' that defaults to nil. The 'eudc-ignore-options-file' user option can be configured to ignore -- 2.39.2