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Re: Deprecate vs. discourage
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: Deprecate vs. discourage |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:18:37 +0100 |
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Hej,
On Tue 26 Jan 2010 23:15, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> I think things like ‘uniform-vector-read’ should be discouraged rather
> than deprecated, since it matches the definition in ‘discouraged.h’:
>
> A discouraged feature is one that shouldn't be used in new code
> since we have a better alternative now. However, there is nothing
> wrong with using the old feature, so it is OK to continue to use
> it.
>
> However, discouraged features currently don’t produce any sort of
> warning. I would suggest using the same technique as
> ‘build-aux/link-warning.h’ to issue a link-time warning.
>
> What do you think?
Sounds good to me :)
Andy
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