Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I don't suppose we will ever see the word "deprecated" in any of > your Info or man pages,
No, actually we do see it. For example, CVS coreutils.texi says that cp --reply is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in 2008. > Contrast this with python, which even gives "future warnings". We also do that with coreutils. For example: $ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 $ unset POSIXLY_CORRECT $ touch 0101000099 foo touch: warning: `touch 0101000099' is obsolete; use `touch -t 199901010000.00' $ ls -l 0101000099 foo ls: 0101000099: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 Jan 1 1999 foo (That 'touch' diagnostic is not documented. There are limits to what should be documented.) The question is what is the right thing to do for 'date -I'. Perhaps we should improve coreutils, but simply documenting the current behavior as-is is probably not an improvement. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
