From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: berrange@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 19:20:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c094f89-11b6-b6cc-690b-df688e425fd9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87361mfn1d.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 06/11/20 17:49, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Deprecate all this, except for -chardev and -spice where it is in
>> wide use.
> I consider this a misuse of deprecation, to be frank. If something is
> known to be unused, we just remove it. Deprecation is precisely for
> things that are used. I'm with Daniel here: let's deprecate this sugar
> everywhere.
>
> Wide use may justify extending the deprecation grace period.
Fair enough. However now that I think of it I'd have to remove the
coverage of the "feature" in tests, because they'd warn.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 14:27 [PATCH for-5.2 0/2] deprecate short-form boolean options Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-05 14:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] qemu-option: move help handling to get_opt_name_value Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-06 15:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-06 16:55 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-05 14:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options Paolo Bonzini
2020-11-06 16:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-06 18:20 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-11-09 7:59 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-05 14:36 ` [PATCH for-5.2 0/2] deprecate " no-reply
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