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Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses


Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:50:48 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>

You've been pushing very hard to renaming things to deprecated_foo for
a while now.  I think I'm not the only other maintainer who doesn't
understand or approve.  It's a lot of work for you; it generates large
patches and source churn; it causes patch rejects and merge errors for
other developers; and the rest of us don't see or agree on the benefit.


FWIW, I generally approve of the practice to rename deprecated
features _assuming_that_they_are_on_their_way_to_oblivion_.  That
way, we give people/ports some time to prepare themselves for the
removal, or to mount a campaign against such removal.

But renaming code that isn't going to go away, but to be simply
rewritten in a trivial way, is indeed a terrible waste of our
resources, IMHO.

BTW, coff (not xcoff) support which is where (ignoring ada, hi joel) most of the remaining references occure _is_ heading for oblivion. I just sent out patches to wack m68k and mips svr3 support. That leaves just i386 and alpha.


Andrew



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