----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [WARN] Removing the file attribute from <zip> and friends tomorrow
> > > I prefer leaving them in with a deprecation message, though removing all > > > documentation of their very existence from the manual pages. > > +1 > > Theres already a bunch of people who converted their buildfiles to use "file" > - whats the harm in having an undocumented deprecated attribute still exist. > It is only 3 lines of code ;) I dunno, Stephane and Conor have convinced me it is a fundamental 'freedom to fiddle with the betas' issue How about we do something like implement a hard coded countdown in the source; the deprecation lists a "5 days left" to use this attribute until it turns itself off. That way even copies of the library in SCM wont work either :) otherwise, make the deprecation message bigger and bigger till we turn it off by hand -steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
