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Re: Removing -frwitable-strings
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:38:13PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 20:28, Mike Stump wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > >> Well, a quick count has it breaking 20 of around 2039 software
> > >> projects
> > >> around here.
> > >
> > > Are you objecting, or just stating a fact?
> >
> > I thought about adding text to explain my position. I tried, but
> > nothing came to mind, so I just left it as a dry fact for others to
> > ponder in the decision making process. I don't know if I am for or
> > against, but i do know we'll get hit by it, which is annoying.
>
> I'm not going to treat that as an objection, then -- but you (or someone
> else) can change your mind and register an objection later.
If similar ratios hold for the Debian distro (with 10,000 packages),
it suggests that 100 will break. That might be a show-stopper. In
any case, in the past when we have deprecated a feature we've done it
over two *major* releases, as in: deprecate in 3.4, remove in 3.5.
I'm not saying at this point that we can't deprecate and remove the
flag any faster, but I think we need to understand the implications.