Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses

Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24T19:33:59Z

> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:50:48 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
> You've been pushing very hard to renaming things to deprecated_foo for
> a while now. I think I'm not the only other maintainer who doesn't
> understand or approve. It's a lot of work for you; it generates large
> patches and source churn; it causes patch rejects and merge errors for
> other developers; and the rest of us don't see or agree on the benefit.

FWIW, I generally approve of the practice to rename deprecated
features _assuming_that_they_are_on_their_way_to_oblivion_. That
way, we give people/ports some time to prepare themselves for the
removal, or to mount a campaign against such removal.

But renaming code that isn't going to go away, but to be simply
rewritten in a trivial way, is indeed a terrible waste of our
resources, IMHO.