On 10/1/20 5:35 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago. We didn't have a > deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the > documentation and from help texts. Can we finally drop it? > > I'm asking because there is a patch on the list that bypasses > is_help_option() to not add deprecated "?" to a new place: "[PATCH v2 > 1/4] keyval: Parse help options". >
Did we ever issue a warning when it was used? It's easier to argue that it can be dropped if users had notice of some form or another. That said, I'm not heartbroken if we yank it immediately instead of letting it live for 2 more releases. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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