Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses

Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01T19:08:56Z

> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:47:01 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > But that's precisely why we have the patch review and approval
> > procedure, right? Maintainers who approve patches are supposed to
> > prevent code that uses deprecated machinery from being added.
>
> Very true. Explicit deprecation is a tool for making that part of the
> maintainer and contributor task far easier. Instead of wasting time
> trying to track and find all the things being eliminated, the
> contributor and reviewer can simply keep an eye out for deprecated in
> their patches

I'm not convinced that detecting STREQ is harder than detecting
DEPRECATED_STREQ.