Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove deprecations

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:55:46PM +0200, Felix wrote:
> > Here's a patch that gets rid of all the things that were deprecated
> > in 4.8.0.  Some of the things were a little tricky - for example, there
> > were several macros that were plain lambdas that didn't make use of a
> > macro transformer wrapper.  It turns out the notes I put with the
> > string->number stuff were also incorrect, so I fixed it the right way :)
> 
> Note that we have to keep deprecated stuff for a while. It seems that
> people often keep relatively old chickens around and it is truly
> annoying having to work around a dropped compiler option or primitive.
> It would be best to sort out exactly when these things were deprecated
> (I can do that, if you want). We should try to mark deprecations with
> a timestamp in the future - it would have made things easier now.

I thought kept stuff deprecated for one release and removed it the next.
When will we be able to remove this stuff?

Cheers,
Peter
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