On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:48:43PM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: > On 7/8/06, seventh guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 7/8/06, Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:34:31PM -0500, fvwm-workers wrote: > >> > CVSROOT: /home/cvs/fvwm > >> > Module name: fvwm > >> > Changes by: renato 06/07/07 18:34:31 > >> > > >> > Modified files: > >> > . : ChangeLog > >> > fvwm : fvwm.1.in fvwm.c > >> > > >> > Log message: > >> > Removed the warning about the obsolete option -blackout. > >> > Removed its reference from the manual. > >> > >> Um, why? We've never had any 'secret' features (at least not on > >> purpose). Every option is documented, even if it's frowned upon. > > > >The -blackout code was removed a long time ago. The warning I refer to > >was put there by you in 1999 (pre-2.4) so that people who used to > >start fvwm with the -blackout option could still do it, even if it > >didn't do nothing. There was really no option -blackout, fvwm just > >accepted it and said "it doesnt do nothing anymore", instead of > >refusing to start. It's there (the warning) since 1999, so I guess no > >one needs that anymore..
Well, we have been very *very* conservative in the past about backwards compatibility - and that patch breaks it. It's no longer possible to start fvwm with "-blackout". I don't think this is the right time to remove it. Of course it's obsolete and useless, but in the 2.x series we tried to keep compatibility as much as possible. The ominous 3.0 release (which is meant to remove a lot of old and obsolete stuff) would be the place to clean everything up. > I'm still a bit overwelmed by the commit access, so I triple-check > (instead of double-check) what I do :) Well, I certainly don't want to discourage you from doing usefull work, but please don't become too eager committing potentially harmful changes without discussing them. Compatibility is a sensitive issue, and we have spent lots of time thinking about the right way to go. (The fact that most of us don't have time to write patches nowadays does not mean we don't have the time to argue about patches ;-) ) Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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