From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch yem-misc-updates
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D1540B.7000006@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo6mvcog.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>
On 07/01/13 11:42, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
>
> Yann> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Yann> Hello All!
>
> Yann> This two-patch series adds some cosmetics to the legacy menu.
>
> Yann> The first patch displays the removal date in the menuconfig, to show
> Yann> the user how old the legacy options he's using are.
>
> Yann> The second patch adds to the top-level comment, that legacy options
> Yann> will be removed at some point in the future, and that non-updated
> Yann> .config files may fail to build, or run, in unpredictable ways.
>
> Yann> If we do not intend to remove legacy options, let's just drop patch #2,
> Yann> of course.
>
> I think we do, question is how soon? 6 months, 1 year?
>
> They are not very expensive, so I suggest we keep them for 1 year.
I would keep them much longer, at least three years. Most distros have
a 3 year or more 'stable' branch, so anything inexpensive that we can do
to approximate that is good I think.
Regards,
Arnout
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-29 22:38 [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch yem-misc-updates Yann E. MORIN
2013-06-29 22:38 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] legacy: print removal date in menuconfig Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-01 7:09 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-06-29 22:38 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] legacy: make it clear legacy options will be removed at some point Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-01 9:42 ` [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch yem-misc-updates Peter Korsgaard
2013-07-01 10:03 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-07-01 10:09 ` Peter Korsgaard
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2013-07-18 21:24 Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-07 13:13 Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-07 19:39 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-06-23 20:40 Yann E. MORIN
2013-06-03 20:15 Yann E. MORIN
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