Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove deprecations

[Felix]

>> Note that we have to keep deprecated stuff for a while. It seems that
>> people often keep relatively old chickens around and it is truly
>> annoying having to work around a dropped compiler option or primitive.
>> It would be best to sort out exactly when these things were deprecated
>> (I can do that, if you want). We should try to mark deprecations with
>> a timestamp in the future - it would have made things easier now.
> 
> I thought kept stuff deprecated for one release and removed it the next.
> When will we be able to remove this stuff?

Yes, you are of course totally right. I'm just a bit reluctant to
remove what might still be used somewhere. We all know how it is when
things break suddenly, just because an egg or the base system has been
updated. The longer something is kept, the lower is the chance of
breakage. I just think we should decide on a case by case basis,
whether something is truly ancient, or whether it was still in use in
compiled code, whether something just hurts in the eye and has to go,
or wether it is obscure enough to be left in or a while.


cheers,
felix