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Re: remove 'exit'?
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: remove 'exit'? |
Date: |
Sun, 01 May 2011 21:08:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> I noticed this warning in one of my projects (gsasl):
>>
>> Notice from module exit:
>> This module is obsolete. It will be removed on 2011-01-01. Use 'stdlib'.
>>
>> Time to remove the module?
>
> Well, if you were still using this module, that is, this notice did not catch
> your attention in 14 months, then the same may happen to other users of the
> module. So, either the time period is not long enough, or the message needs
> to be printed in uppercase and bold letters?
It is easy to miss the message -- gnulib-tool's output is quite verbose.
Would it help if the user had to press enter to continue? That could be
a problem for automated builds, but someone is bound to notice the
problem eventually in that case though.
/Simon
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