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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:53:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D96EE3.9050101@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709011514200.11617@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> given the possible
>>> interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now,
>>> maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both
>>> EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?).
>> In theory maybe, for communication purposes perhaps rather not.
> 
> devfs would have been a good starting point for
> EXPERIMENTAL && (DECPREATED || OBSOLETE).

Humorous or not, this serves to indicate how synonymous 'deprecated' and 
'obsolete' are.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-01 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 21:38 maturity and status and attributes, oh my! Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01  6:35   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01  9:06     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-31 22:36 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01  1:23   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01  9:14     ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01  9:21       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01  9:47         ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01  9:54           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 13:14           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01 13:53             ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-01 10:43       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 10:52         ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 11:06           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 13:44             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-01 13:52               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 14:27               ` Stefan Richter
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709010435070.26137@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-01  9:27     ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-01  9:41       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 17:22         ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01 17:58           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:06             ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01 18:24               ` Dave Jones
2007-08-31 23:02 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-01  8:34   ` Robert P. J. Day
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-31 23:29 Mitchell Erblich
2007-09-01  1:33 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-01  6:39   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-01  7:02     ` Robert P. J. Day

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