Re: Deprecation of stuff

2019-09-04 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
+1 (and more) to the below! > On Sep 4, 2019, at 10:15 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I'd note that the question of *versioning* mechanisms is a very very > special case of "when to deprecate stuff". So much so as to almost make > it a completely separate question altogether. > > My own

Re: Deprecation of stuff

2019-09-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 08:38 +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > The dispute in PR https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7853 has > made it quote obvious that we have some very different ideas on when > and why we should or shouldn't deprecate stuff. > > What does deprecation mean? Essentially,

Re: Deprecation of stuff

2019-09-04 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 02:43:34PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > The dispute in PR https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7853 has > > made it quote obvious that we have some very different ideas on when > > and why we should or shouldn't deprecate stuff. > > > > What does deprecation mean?

Re: Deprecation of stuff

2019-09-04 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 08:38 +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > The dispute in PR https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7853 has > made it quote obvious that we have some very different ideas on when > and why we should or shouldn't deprecate stuff. > > What does deprecation mean? Essentially,