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Re: Handling deprecated features
From: |
Neil Jerram |
Subject: |
Re: Handling deprecated features |
Date: |
29 Apr 2001 23:06:22 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
Marius> Hi, it seems important to me that we have a solid way of
Marius> ahndling the deprecation of features. [...]
Marius> What do you think?
This basically sounds good, but with two caveats:
1) I'm not sure about using an environment variable to customize the
behaviour. Currently, we already have two mechanisms for this kind
of control: (i) command line options and (ii) the (xxx-options)
interfaces. Why should we add a third form of customization rather
than use one of the existing mechanisms?
2) I still think that version information may be sufficiently helpful
in deprecation warnings to implement version information even
though the same information could be discovered by reading the NEWS
file. In practice, what I have in mind is the difference between,
say,
;;; `xxx' is deprecated and will disappear in a future version of
;;; Guile; please use `yyy' instead.
and
;;; `xxx' will be removed in the next Guile release; please use
;;; `yyy' instead.
I wonder if anyone else thinks this last distinction would be useful?
Regards,
Neil
- Re: Several questions., (continued)
- Re: Several questions., Marius Vollmer, 2001/04/20
- Re: Several questions., Dirk Herrmann, 2001/04/20
- Re: Several questions., Neil Jerram, 2001/04/21
- Re: Several questions., Dirk Herrmann, 2001/04/21
- Re: Several questions., Marius Vollmer, 2001/04/21
- Re: Several questions., Dirk Herrmann, 2001/04/22
- Handling deprecated features, Marius Vollmer, 2001/04/29
- Re: Handling deprecated features,
Neil Jerram <=
- Re: Several questions., Marius Vollmer, 2001/04/21