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Re: [PATCH] Kill regexp.h
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:12:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kill regexp.h
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On 07/14/2015 08:20 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> At a high level your patch looks OK, it makes sense to deprecate
>> these interfaces, but I think we should to do this in two stages.
>> Add warnings and then remove.
>
> Hm. If we do that then I would feel obliged to fix the bugs in the
> header in phase one. I'm not sure that's worth doing...
Worth is certainly in the eye of the beholder. How would you feel if
you were a user of this interface?
c.