what to do with tm

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mike Kupfer writes:

 > I don't expect the patch to be difficult.  Do we care if tm retains
 > compatibility with MH-E 7 (i.e., older MH-E packages), or can I remove
 > MH-E support completely?

We don't care; in fact we would prefer encouraging people to migrate
to more modern MH-E, since tm is completely unsupported.  Of course we
expect that you will consider any functionality that MH-E + tm
supports but MH-E 8 does not to be a serious matter, and in return
we'll do what we can to help MH-E support it.  In practice, I doubt
this implies burden on either side.

For future reference, this is as far as I (as one reviewer, not as a
representative of the Board) am willing to go at this point, but I'm
being deliberately conservative.  I think that deprecating obsolete
and superseded packages is going to come up more and more frequently
in the near future (AUCTeX v. old tex-mode.el is a case in point), and
we need a consistent policy.  Comments and discussion are welcome.