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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:40:24 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly
Message-ID:  <20020225094024.GA25472@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020225023845.D31007@espresso.q9media.com>
References:  <3C79CD3B.E315DF4B@DougBarton.net> <20020225005343.C31007@espresso.q9media.com> <3C79E2AE.AFCA54F0@DougBarton.net> <20020225023845.D31007@espresso.q9media.com>

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> writes:
> > Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > > Deprecated features should generate warnings.
> >=20
> > 	Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy support." I agree that
> > features we don't want to support anymore should generate warnings that
> > encourage users to change. However, there is so little cost to support
> > the old flags that there is no reason to ever discontinue that support.
> > it's two lines of code. You can see them in the diff. The code is even
> > properly documented to indicate it's purpose. It can't get any better
> > than that.=20
>=20
> I don't have any objections to making this a supported legacy mode,
> but I think deprecated features (things we *want* to go away) should
> produce warnings.

I'd prefer not to support N different ways of specifying colours, and
want to hold onto making the deprecated version include warnings.

Sorry,
Joe

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