Re: Adding the possibility of not compiling deprecated code ?

2006-07-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:19:48PM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: Hi. This idea just came into my head: why not #ifdef'ing the deprecated code and having configure.ac option --disable-backcompat? Examples: User A has an old config. So he downloads the new package, compiles it and installs

Re: Adding the possibility of not compiling deprecated code ?

2006-07-17 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:46:24PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:19:48PM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: This idea just came into my head: why not #ifdef'ing the deprecated code and having configure.ac option --disable-backcompat? It's all about compatibility and

Re: Adding the possibility of not compiling deprecated code ?

2006-07-17 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:16:08PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:46:24PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:19:48PM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: This idea just came into my head: why not #ifdef'ing the deprecated code and having configure.ac