From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Aug 5 2:28:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep16-int.chello.nl (unknown [213.46.243.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8522237B403; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep16-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20010805092507.IDHR2039.amsfep16-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:25:07 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f759S2193730; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:28:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:28:02 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Mike Barcroft , Peter Pentchev , audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org Subject: Re: whois(1) new features for review Message-ID: <20010805112802.A93252@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20010725120952.B77004@coffee.q9media.com> <6944.996077077@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010726174018.B28536@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010726174018.B28536@ark.cris.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20010726 17:21], Alexey Zelkin (phantom@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >According '-R' flag. I suggest to just document deprecation >of '-R' flag in manpage for 5.x branch. But in 4.x branch >make it in way proposed by Mike (runtime deprecation message) >and document it in manpage as well. That's a point of discussion btw: Since you introduce the changes in 5.0. Along with the deprecation points to be made. Therefore you remove the functionality in 6.0 and onward [next major release]. You do not touch 4.x, since that would mean a backport. Normally, in commercial environments (just for the sake of the discussion/through), you only backport fixes and not radical changes like this. [ObNote: Yes, I have been reading standards documents lately as well as maintaining and reading my share of commercial Unix systems and their associated documentation.] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing left to count... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message