From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22164 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 19:58:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22157 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 19:58:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 19:58:25 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439F82B8F; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:58:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FC262DE.5080308@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:58:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses References: <3FC119EB.1060102@gnu.org> <3FC234C0.1000500@gnu.org> <20031124165047.GA2227@nevyn.them.org> <9003-Mon24Nov2003213315+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00536.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:50:48 -0500 >> From: Daniel Jacobowitz >> >> 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. BTW, coff (not xcoff) support which is where (ignoring ada, hi joel) most of the remaining references occure _is_ heading for oblivion. I just sent out patches to wack m68k and mips svr3 support. That leaves just i386 and alpha. Andrew