From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:03:55 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch yem-misc-updates In-Reply-To: <87bo6mvcog.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <87bo6mvcog.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <51D1540B.7000006@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/01/13 11:42, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > > Yann> From: "Yann E. MORIN" > 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 -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F