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Re: Marking old window variables obsolete
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Marking old window variables obsolete |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:18:58 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:53:06 -0700
>
> > > > > My request is first that we do not deprecate these user
> > > > > options _now_.
> > > >
> > > > How else can we encourage users to migrate to the new machinery?
> > >
> > > Sheesh. If that's the only way users can be encouraged to
> > > adopt the new machinery, that doesn't say much about how appealing
> > > it is, does it?
> > >
> > > Users generally have little problem adopting new features
> > > that they find (or even suspect might be) useful.
> >
> > You must be kidding, if you rely in people discovering every new
> > feature among hundreds, let alone study each one of them.
>
> No, I am not kidding.
>
> And you are jumping all over the map. So now it's about users _discovering_
> new
> features? No.
Indeed, no. It's about encouraging them to switch. And since we
cannot rely on them discovering these features on their own, we do it
through deprecation.
Deprecation doesn't mean removal. I suggest to save your energy for
when the removal is discussed.
- Marking old window variables obsolete, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/09
- RE: Marking old window variables obsolete, Drew Adams, 2012/08/09
- Re: Marking old window variables obsolete, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/08/09
- RE: Marking old window variables obsolete, Drew Adams, 2012/08/09
- Re: Marking old window variables obsolete, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/08/09
- RE: Marking old window variables obsolete, Drew Adams, 2012/08/09
- Re: Marking old window variables obsolete, Óscar Fuentes, 2012/08/09
- RE: Marking old window variables obsolete, Drew Adams, 2012/08/09
- Re: Marking old window variables obsolete, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/08/09
- RE: Marking old window variables obsolete, Drew Adams, 2012/08/09
- Re: Marking old window variables obsolete,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: Marking old window variables obsolete, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/09