Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove several deprecated things which should not cause too much trouble

[Christian Kellermann]

Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:05:25AM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote:
>
>> Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> Must not be paying attention. Only marked in the source?
>> >
>> > Yeah, that's possible; I don't know exactly when it was marked as
>> > deprecated.  Sorry for that, we'll try to announce it in the NEWS file
>> > but this looks like a historical oversight.
>> 
>> Also with the new deprecation patch
>> f47e7cc5ff02acdf93f52bf76444366e8d99145d, it should now be possible to
>> generate a warning for this when compiling.
>
> Not really; this is a C function.  Though this reminds me, I think I
> proposed generating deprecation warnings for C code (using __attribute__)
> before, but I can't seem to find that thread anymore.  I think Felix
> shot down this proposal because he thought that would be too annoying
> or something.

Sounds good to me, in the end this *should* be annoying. Pain seems to
drive most development these days :p