On 15/09/2011 22:16, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 9/15/2011 2:14 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >>> In the same spirit as axing the <Foo ~ ""> regex match syntax >>> becoming <FooMatch "">. >> Should we start in 2.4 by logging a deprecation warning at level info >> for the <Foo ~ ""> syntax? > That was just a example of why your suggestion is good. > > We could do that, yes. +1, but I don't think that we can fully deprecate until the next major revision/release (eg 2.6/3.0). I think that the majority of users won't upgrade until the big distributions pick up 2.4, which isn't going to finish happening for 6-12 months after we release 2.4
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