Yeah this is a good point, if you say okay folks we will keep this for you
till version 8.2 or whatever and then you are on your own, with major
notices wherever reasonable, manuals et al. then I would throw my vote for
this, given I am entitled to a vote.
ASD.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
IMHO, it leads to more maintenance work to support backward
compatibility. Can we give it a desupport version such as saying,
"it's currently deprecated and will be completely removed in 8.2, 8.3,
...?" That way, supporting the both for the short-term wouldn't be
too wasteful.
( sorry Tom, GMAIL defaults to REPLY not REPLY ALL :( )
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