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Re: "Experimental" features in releases
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 17 Apr 2006 17:44:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: "Experimental" features in releases
- References: <4443E3EA.7000508@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> In any case, the broader question is: to what extent should we have
Mark> experimental options in releases, and how should we warn users of their
Mark> experimental nature?
Why not put this into the option name? Something like '-Xoption' or
'-fexperimental-option? Then people will know that it is
experimental. Also, such options could be documented in a separate
section to avoid people tripping over them by mistake.
Tom