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Re: remove 'exit'?


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: remove 'exit'?
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 21:08:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> I noticed this warning in one of my projects (gsasl):
>> 
>> Notice from module exit:
>>   This module is obsolete. It will be removed on 2011-01-01.  Use 'stdlib'.
>> 
>> Time to remove the module?
>
> Well, if you were still using this module, that is, this notice did not catch
> your attention in 14 months, then the same may happen to other users of the
> module. So, either the time period is not long enough, or the message needs
> to be printed in uppercase and bold letters?

It is easy to miss the message -- gnulib-tool's output is quite verbose.
Would it help if the user had to press enter to continue?  That could be
a problem for automated builds, but someone is bound to notice the
problem eventually in that case though.

/Simon



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