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Re: backwards headers vs. C++0x
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:05:27AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> If it's not hard to keep these headers, why not do it? We know that
> there are a lot of users that have large codebases and are resistant to
> changing them. The free software codebases (e.g., KDE) are not
> representative of industrial codebases. If maintaining compatibility
> makes it hard to move forward and implement new features, that's a good
> argument for removing things -- but just tidiness isn't.
How about leaving them in the distribution, but making people include the
appropriate -I line if they want them? The annoyance factor will help
motivate people to clean up their code, and for those who can't or won't,
it's easy enough to change the makefiles to add a new flag.