Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add the code maturity levels DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:27, Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> > Is that really the consensus on these definitions? I thought it was
> > more or less the opposite:
> >
> > * DEPRECATED == no (complete) replacement available yet, but it has
> >   been decided that this code is less than optimal and
> >   alternatives should be preferred

just to clarify this, that's not my idea of "deprecated".
"deprecated" means that there *is* a complete replacement available
*right now* and you should consider switching to it.

if you can't offer someone a completely functional, better alternative
to what they're using now, then you can't say that what they're using
now is deprecated.

rday

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