From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 08:06:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54b77382-78c8-e6bf-45d4-616595baa87f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0wa1bf8.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
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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.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 13:08 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 [this message]
2020-10-01 13:17 ` Kevin Wolf
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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