On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:03, Stephane Bailliez wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > I would not even remove this deprecation. I would simply
> >
> > wipe it out.
> >
> > and in the process brake a bunch of projects and piss off a
> > bunch of people
> > for aestetics.
>
> This attribute has never been there but for nightly builds.
> In short: It does not exist.

tell that to users who downloaded ant, or one of the projects that use it - 
saw the deprecation warnings and upgraded their build files.

Just FYI of the three codebases I have touched in the last week (Ant, Avalon 
and Gump) all of them currently or in the recent past have used the 
attribute. It may be coincidence and these *may* be the only projects that 
happen to use it however I suspect not.

Theres no point busting peoples build files for no good reason.

..snip changing ant in CVS  == changing myrmidon in CVS...
> Absolutely not. Those who want to live on the edge know the risks of it.

Well I disagree. Theres a specific warning in myrmidon CVS (see WARNING.txt), 
it has never been made a sa nightly download, never been released at all, not 
even the semblence of standing still ... I could go on.

> Please reconsider your -1. I understand what you want to avoid but this is
> way too dangerous to generalize 

Then dont generalize it. I think this change was in place ***before*** 1.4 
was released and thus has been around a long time. Thus a lot of people are 
likely to have been exposed to it. Keep it undocumented and deprecate it but 
don't remove it.

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

"Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." -- Sun Tzu 

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