On 1/6/2014 4:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
That's just not true, sorry. If some module owner decides to keep using NULL or PRUnichar, or invent their own string class, they will be corrected.
Maybe. But we also have a very large number of deprecated or effectively-deprecated constructs whose deprecation module owners may not be aware of because their use is somewhat prevalent in code. For example, the NS_ENSURE_* macros are apparently now considered officially deprecated. Our track record of removing these quickly is poor (nsISupportsArray and nsVoidArray, anyone?), and many of the deprecated constructs are macros or things defined in external project headers (like, say, prtypes.h), which makes using __declspec(deprecated) or __attribute__((deprecated)) unfeasible.
Is there any support for setting up a wiki page that lists these deprecated, obsolete constructs and provides tracking bugs for actually eliminating them?
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