I think putting it in 4.0 pre makes a lot of sense.  I will look at how to
do that.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 17:06 John Hardin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>
> >
> >> The intent was to avoid breaking existing production configurations
> >> and third-party tools when feature_block_welcome becomes available, in
> >> order to complete the coverage of backwards compatibility.
> >
> > I was thinking to publicize the one byte change for the can has feature
> > to disable it to stay with the old rules.  I think that's simpler than
> > the alias functionality.
>
> Assuming that the only utility of the "alias" directive is backwards
> compatibility in this feature, that's obviously a simpler solution. ☺
>
> I haven't been thinking about general utility of "alias" - can anyone
> think of a use case that makes it attractive outside backwards
> compatibility?
>
> I think it would be better to control feature_block_welcome from the
> 4.0pre file rather than having to make a code change, regardless of how
> small. Is that feasible?
>
>
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