Nuke it.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote:

> Some distributions (most recently Ubuntu) seem to enable --tollef by
> default without stressing they have done so to their users.
>
> If that caused support issues for the distribution I would not mind,
> but it seems users are coming here for support; in which case the bad
> decision of the distributions causes extra support burden here.
>
> So I am considering obsoleting --tollef from next release with
> scheduled complete retirement of the option one year from next
> release.
>
> That would make GNU Parallel backwards incompatible from version
> 20140222 which is not something I take lightly (the last time this
> happened was with the introduction of --xapply in 20110522 causing
> multiple ::: to change meaning).
>
> Therefore, dear user, please let your voice be heard:
>
> Do you want to save --tollef (And thus take the extra support)? Or are
> you OK with retiring the option?
>
>
> /Ole
>
>


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  ~Wayne

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