On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 02:37:30AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-08-23 11:06:22 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > I think even keeping a $locale alias is still better with the changes > > made. $locale no longer affects the index or various other output, so > > even goofed-up, it causes much fewer problems. Perhaps we could create > > the alias but not document it. Or document it but mark it as > > deprecated, and delete it in e.g. 1.9. > > It would be bad to keep it if it no longer has the same behavior. > An error due to the fact that the variable no longer exists is > better than a silent change of the behavior, which could confuse > the user, who may think that something is broken on his system.
In general, I agree, but I'm not sure that's true in this case. We've merely reduced the effect of the (proposed alias) $locale. Other places it used to affect, such as the index dates, will now be controlled by the user's locale environment variables. I suspect that most users who have customized $locale for the index dates won't notice any change. I like the idea of just getting it done and over with, but sympathize with Eike, who has multiple environments. Will deprecating and removing a $locale alias over one major release really make the problem worse? -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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