From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:17:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001131714.GC6673@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54b77382-78c8-e6bf-45d4-616595baa87f@redhat.com>
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Am 01.10.2020 um 15:06 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> 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.
A deprecation warning for a help option would somehow feel strange.
I would consider this a human-only interface that can be changed at
will, like HMP syntax.
Kevin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 10:35 Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it? Markus Armbruster
2020-10-01 10:46 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-01 11:20 ` Peter Maydell
2020-10-01 15:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-10-01 15:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-10-01 13:06 ` Eric Blake
2020-10-01 13:17 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2020-10-01 15:04 ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-01 14:02 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-02 10:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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