On Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:05:14 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > > >> What do you think about marking old macros as deprecated? > > >> > > >> This will cause warning in application code that is using > > >> old macros, but shouldn't fail their build (unless -Werror > > >> is issued). > > > > > > It looks to be the right thing to do. > > > I wonder whether we could wait 22.02 to apply it, > > > so users of LTS are not annoyed by it. > > > > I have no strong opinion, but tend to agree with Thomas. > > However, if an application jumps from LTS to LTS, these > > defines will be available in 21.11 without any warnings > > and simply disappear in 22.11. So, may be it is more > > friendly to deprecate in 21.11. > > That's true for a lot of deprecations done in the year. > Jumping from LTS to LTS is for production. > Intermediate releases should help in the upgrade preparation process. Agree, the deprecation cycle is long enough and it is just a trivial warning easy to fix, or for those that ignore warnings they just won't care.
