Charles,
On Mo, 25 Aug 2025, Charles Campbell wrote:
> I think it would be a Good Idea to have a procedure for this sort of thing,
> and to publish it in the Vim Manual someplace.
>
> *1 announce that something is being considered for deprecation (comments
> accepted)
> *2 deprecate by surrounding the relevant code with #ifdef blocks and await
> any screams of protest. With this approach you'll get notified if anyone is
> using the feature/support and they can reverse it by putting a #define
> SOMETHING in vim.h.
> *3 release vim with the #ifdef SOMETHING blocks
> *4 next release remove the SOMETHING blocks
>
> At any point until the last one reversal of the change is easy. *2 is likely
> to get protestations amongst those who pay attention to the vim/vimdev
> groups. *3 will get protestations from those who are using the deprecated
> feature. Finally, *4 will remove the feature/support.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. Yes I need to document this, it's
been on my list for a while already.
Thanks,
Christian
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