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Re: [Patch, Fortan] Depricate -M<dir> in favour of -J<dir>
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 20:16:31 Thomas Koenig wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:09 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> > Build and regtested on x86-64-linux.
> > OK for the trunk (4.3.0)?
>
> Because we're in regression-only mode, I think it would be
> better to wait for 4.4.
That's the point. If -M is deprecated in 4.4 only, we can re-use it for
Makefile-dependency-generation in 4.5 at the earliest?!
To phrase it differently: are we allowed to change the meaning of an option
from one release to another, i.e. from 4.3 to 4.4, without deprecating its
usage in the earlier meaning first?
Regards
Daniel