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Re: [patch] Deprecate XM_FILE and TM_FILE


> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 16:25:48 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > Deprecating XM_FILE means it will be deleted in the next major
> > release.  So I'm complaining now to prevent the more-or-less automatic
> > deletion of anything that matches the regexp "deprecated.*"
> > (case-insensitively) in the near future, when it would be too late to
> > complain.
> 
> This isn't correct.
> 
> Deprecating something does not mean that it will automatically be 
> deleted in the next major release.  We've still got stuff that was 
> deprecated in '99!

That might be so, but I've seen too many "Garbage collect FOO"
messages lately to know that, following every release, many deprecated
features get eliminated in patches treated as obvious, with no
discussion.

> Java defines deprecation as:

Andrew, can you please stop patronizing me?  I think I understand
English well enough to not need such lectures!

> How about we get this in, and then I'll follow up (by 6.3) with patches 
> to finish this (as I said, I suspect I'll be doing the dirty work).

As I said already, several times, I'd like the replacement to go in
either before or together with this patch, not after.


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