From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31733 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2002 13:19:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31726 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 13:19:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO systemhalted) (24.112.140.233) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 13:19:47 -0000 Received: from carlos by systemhalted with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17h8sv-0001GH-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:17:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:19:00 -0000 From: Carlos O'Donell To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call Message-ID: <20020820131725.GA4803@systemhalted> References: <3D5C248D.4030003@ges.redhat.com> <1020815223303.ZM7495@localhost.localdomain> <20020816133012.GC11845@systemhalted> <3D5D030F.4050409@ges.redhat.com> <9003-Sun18Aug2002213705+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3D619A15.1040504@ges.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D619A15.1040504@ges.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Useless-Header: oooohhmmm, chant the email mantra... X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00224.txt.bz2 ac, > > > >Yes, I think users will get annoyed and even scared. The message is > >meant for the port maintainers, not for users. > > Another option is, by default, have the message disabled. Only enable > it when in say maintainer-mode or while running the testsuite. > What's wrong with making users scared? Isn't that the purpose of the message? What if there are no port maintainers? Leave it enabled by default... raise awarness :) c.