From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 25 1:41: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EA337B421; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8DA3E492; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:40:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:40:24 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly Message-ID: <20020225094024.GA25472@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <3C79CD3B.E315DF4B@DougBarton.net> <20020225005343.C31007@espresso.q9media.com> <3C79E2AE.AFCA54F0@DougBarton.net> <20020225023845.D31007@espresso.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020225023845.D31007@espresso.q9media.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Doug Barton writes: > > Mike Barcroft wrote: > > > Deprecated features should generate warnings. > >=20 > > Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy support." I agree that > > features we don't want to support anymore should generate warnings that > > encourage users to change. However, there is so little cost to support > > the old flags that there is no reason to ever discontinue that support. > > it's two lines of code. You can see them in the diff. The code is even > > properly documented to indicate it's purpose. It can't get any better > > than that.=20 >=20 > I don't have any objections to making this a supported legacy mode, > but I think deprecated features (things we *want* to go away) should > produce warnings. I'd prefer not to support N different ways of specifying colours, and want to hold onto making the deprecated version include warnings. Sorry, Joe --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjx6BogACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZrEACdFvFzislwWTiwD5GsXDQTvuPV PKEAn2x9G2m4MPOXnhYq5Bn018HDqobL =e/d2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message