On 20/11/2012, at 14.27, "Bendtsen, Jon" <jon.bendt...@laerdal.dk> wrote:
> On 2011-11-11 12.22, John Horne wrote: > >> It is proposed that at the next release of rkhunter the '-r' >> command-line option and the ROOTDIR config file option will be >> deprecated. >> >> The code for these options has not really been maintained for quite some >> time (past few years), and as such probably does not do what is >> expected. The current code will be removed, and at some future time new >> code written to provide similar options (once we have defined what the >> options are and are not expected to do). >> >> If anyone is using either of these options in earnest, then please let >> me know within the next few days. Your grace period for changes in the public "API" consisting of command-line and config file options are too short. It should be longer than "within the next few days", and you really can not expect that all end users of your program follows the mailing list of all programs they are using, or even if they do, that they have time to react "within the next few days". I have seen software packages that keep stuff working but deprecated for a hole minor number, granted that was mostly features of programming languages, but it is still a really nice thing when you use it to build upon. JonB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list Rkhunter-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
