Andy Green wrote: > avoided. Although deprecated features remain in the current version, > their use may raise warning messages recommending alternate practices, > and deprecation may indicate that the feature will be removed in the > future. ...''
Ah, but that's precisely the thing that doesn't happen so easily. At least not at the kernel level. Once a certain functionality is in mainline, it tends to stay there for a good long while, no matter whether the original authors, the company that made it, or any interim maintainers still like it. > You can call it "end of support" like I did, I don't mind. Cool ! > (Maybe we have [a support duration policy] already, but nobody mentioned > it to me.) I wouldn't know of one either :-) Yes, we shouldn't mislead people into believing we'd keep on actively maintaining our products until the end of time. I hope nobody thinks we're crazy enough to even consider attempting that ;-) > So far as that goes they'll > certainly be in a way better position than holding a deprecated phone > from a closed vendor. Absolutely :) - Werner
