Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove several deprecated things which should not cause too much trouble

[Christian Kellermann]

* Peter Bex <address@hidden> [140607 22:27]:
> Hi all,
> 
> The attached patch removes the majority of things that were officially
> deprecated or just marked OBSOLETE.  This is just the low-hanging fruit.
> 
> I've kept around a few compiler flags and the ##sys#check-port-mode and
> ##sys#check-port* as well as C_pair().  There are a few eggs still using
> the mentioned ##sys#check procedures and C_pair() and even core is still
> using C_pair in a few places!
> 
> We can remove those after the eggs have been fixed and core has been
> changed and a new dev snapshot tagged.
> 
> I've "undeprecated" C_mutate, because it is actually documented and
> performs a useful function.  I think it's better to deprecate C_mutate2
> instead: it would be silly to have C_mutate2 be the official API!
> Eventually I'd like to get rid of a few more "2" functions and macros,
> but this will take some time.  I don't want to break too much in one go!
> 
> Finally, we need to start thinking about actually getting rid of the
> deprecated ~ and $VAR expansion in pathnames (ticket #1001).

I have pushed this and will take care of the C_pair usage in core.

Kind regards,

Christian

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