On 01/10/2020 15.17, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 01.10.2020 um 15:06 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: >> On 10/1/20 5:35 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago. We didn't have a >>> deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the >>> documentation and from help texts. Can we finally drop it? >>> >>> I'm asking because there is a patch on the list that bypasses >>> is_help_option() to not add deprecated "?" to a new place: "[PATCH v2 >>> 1/4] keyval: Parse help options". >>> >> >> Did we ever issue a warning when it was used? It's easier to argue that >> it can be dropped if users had notice of some form or another. That >> said, I'm not heartbroken if we yank it immediately instead of letting >> it live for 2 more releases. > > A deprecation warning for a help option would somehow feel strange. > > I would consider this a human-only interface that can be changed at > will, like HMP syntax.
I'm not so sure ... for example we use "-device help" in the qemu-iotest scripts, so other people out there might use "-device ?" in their scripts, too, to check for the availability of devices... so IMHO we should follow the deprecation process properly here. Thomas
