Re: deprecation of asn1_der_decoding_element

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:03 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2014-05-16 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I'm trying to reduce the unnecessary code duplication in libtasn1.
> > One prominent candidate is asn1_der_decoding_element(). If I remember
> > well it was there to optimize few things when libtasn1 was very slow.
> > Would it make sense to deprecate it completely and make it an alias to
> > asn1_der_decoding()?  Are there any applications where this function
> > is being used that making it an alias to der_decoding would cause
> > issues?
> Hello,
> FWIW Debian codesearch only finds matches in gnutls' included copy
> (minitasn) and libtasn1 itself.
> http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=asn1_der_decoding_element

Thank you, that's pretty reassuring. I'll mark this function as
deprecated for the next release, and make it an alias to
asn1_der_decoding, on a subsequent one.

regards,
Nikos