On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 17:42:03 UTC, Alex Rønne
Petersen wrote:
And that's the entire problem.
People shouldn't have to go in and change anything to make code
build just because something has been deprecated.
It's just an alternative compilation mode.
And may be people shouldn't go in and enter admin password to
install software?
On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 18:48:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Also, if
you start compiling with -d, then you have no idea what is and
isn't
deprecated, and then you're that much more screwed when a
deprecated symbol is
actually removed.
You compile with -d because previously the build broke, so you
know you use deprecated features.