On 8.7.2011 11.55, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Michał Górny wrote: > >>>> In [1] it is noted that the 'useq' and 'hasq' functions are >>>> "Deprecated". If this is the case, do we think it would be >>>> pertinent to have a repoman warning reminding people to switch to >>>> 'use' and 'has' respectively? >>> >>> Sounds good. One thing we could consider in future EAPIs is starting >>> to make deprecated functions die and then remove in the one after. > > And what would be the advantage of removing these functions? They have > zero maintenance cost (as already stated previously, see below). >
Making sure people don't use them and through that removing the need to know what the two functions do from new people. Regards, Petteri
