In our previous episode, leledumbo said: > I saw many deprecated things in sockets unit. Could someone tell me what to > do to port existing code?
All the code was already deprecated since 2.0, but the "deprecate" function was only new in 2.2.0, and 2.2.0 had to be 2.0.4 compilable. Use the fp* versions of the functions as much as possible. They have standard errorhandling like documented by e.g. manpages. The older functions had their own conventions related to 1.0.x Linux unit behaviour, which is why they were deprecated. Since they don't hurt that bad it was decided to not remove them directly, but have a reasonable grace period. However 2.0.0 is now almost 4 years ago, and in 2.4 they will be removed. > Why are Sock2Text and Text2Sock deprecated? You know, they're very handy > (sometimes). The errorhandling related to their use can be cumbersome, which makes them handy for little stuff but hard to support. Moreover, nobody was interested to maintain them. (though inbetween afaik Daniel worked on it a bit to keep them working). _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
