From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1639 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 19:33:59 -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 1632 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 19:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gollum.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 19:33:59 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.153.167]) by gollum.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BXU28446; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:33:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:33:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Message-Id: <9003-Mon24Nov2003213315+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20031124165047.GA2227@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:50:48 -0500) Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <3FC119EB.1060102@gnu.org> <3FC234C0.1000500@gnu.org> <20031124165047.GA2227@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00532.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.