Warnings during byte compilation

[djpeebles]

I've just installed org-super-agenda and upon starting Emacs again (V 29.4 on Fedora Linux 41) I receive the following warnings:

`Warning (bytecomp): docstring has wrong usage of unescaped single quotes (use = or different quoting) [2 times]

Warning (bytecomp): ‘org-timestamp-format’ is an obsolete function (as of Org 9.6); use ‘org-format-timestamp’ instead. [2 times]

Warning (bytecomp): ‘org-duration-string-to-minutes’ is an obsolete function (as of 9.1); use ‘org-duration-to-minutes’ instead. [4 times]

Warning (bytecomp): ‘org-timestamp-format’ is an obsolete function (as of Org 9.6); use ‘org-format-timestamp’ instead.`

I presume that these are not critical but I thought it might be useful to let everyone know.

[alphapapa]

Hello David,

Thanks, but this package already uses my makem.sh script to lint and test, which provides all of these warnings during development and via GitHub CI. (If GitHub hadn't already expired the CI logs, you could see them as well.)

In general, it's nearly impossible to make an Emacs package that supports multiple Emacs and Org versions and has no compilation warnings, because things are constantly being marked obsolete, so either you get one set of warnings on old versions, or another set on new versions.

Anyway, when time permits, and if it seems prudent to stop supporting some old version of Emacs or Org, then certain warnings can be eliminated. Patches are welcome to that effect, as long as the consequences are carefully considered (i.e. old versions should not be broken by accident, but only deliberately). In the meantime, the warnings only happen at compilation time, which should only happen once per version, so it's not too bad.