From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Jul 25 9:58:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1E2837B40D for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 56757 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jul 2001 16:57:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:57:35 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mike Barcroft , phantom@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org Subject: Re: whois(1) new features for review Message-ID: <20010725195735.F47466@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Sheldon Hearn , Mike Barcroft , phantom@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, jabley@automagic.org References: <20010725120952.B77004@coffee.q9media.com> <6944.996077077@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <6944.996077077@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:04:37PM +0200 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 Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:09:52 -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > > Peter is correct. It was my intention to slowly phase it out, but now > > that I think about it, if I completely remove the -R option, getopt(3) > > will tell the user that it's an illegal option and display the usage. > > That's not how things get deprecated. The way it used to work was, I > think: [snip removal-on-next-release description] FWIW, I like this a lot. > In addition to this, two ideas that I like are > > 1) Use of deprecated features causes warnings to be generated until the > feature is obsoleted. > > 2) Release notes warn about both deprecation and obsoletion. FWIW, I like this, too, a lot :) > I think this willy-nilly instantaneous removal of features usually just > annoys users for the sake of gratifying the impatience of committers. This has been my experience, too - both personal and from others asking me questions. G'luck, Peter -- I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message