Re: deprecating features: -wf, Repository_Sig_Times_OK?

[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran]

I'd be happy to see this go.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Knight" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:40 PM
Subject: deprecating features: -wf, Repository_Sig_Times_OK?


> Is anyone out there actively using the Cons -wf option, or the
> Repository_Sig_Times_OK feature?
> 
> A while ago, someone on the list suggested a -w option to warn about
> deprecated features.  Great idea; it would give us a mechanism for
> smoother feature transitions.  But it conflicts with the -wf option
> (write all "considered" file names into a file).
> 
> -wf happens to be the only multi-character option that takes an
> argument, which contradicts good *NIX command-line conventions. -wf also
> doesn't really do anything that -d doesn't do, except that it writes the
> list to a separate file, not intermixed with the build output.
> 
> I propose at least renaming -wf to some other single-character option,
> so that we can use -w for warnings.  If no one is really relying on the
> separate file list, maybe we could even get rid of it entirely...?  How
> badly would that mess up anyone?
> 
> Repository_Sig_Times_OK was a bad solution for problem specific to my
> build environment when the Repository functionality was first being
> developed.  It tells Cons to ignore the time stamps in any .consign
> files in a Repository directory.  I doubt that anyone is using it, and
> I'd suggest just getting rid of it.  Any objections?
> 
> --SK
> 
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