On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 21:00, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > I'm not sure how much, and if this breaks anything in Ports. > > According to github it isn't used much.
We're going to keep this for a while. We would like to keep as much API compatibility as possible, even when the API is mostly useless. The exceptions are generally for APIs which simply cannot be used in a secure manner. Of course, there were other exceptions, when we tried to delete what appeared to be obsolete functions, but then we discovered people still use them, which created a mess. These functions don't appear particularly harmful.
