Re: Remove support for old names in runtime

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:24:49PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Hans Leidekker wrote:
>>If you really can't resist adding things then at least protect the
>>extras with an #ifdef so that it's users have to explicitly ask for
>>them to be included.
>
>We have filtered the code as you've already stated.  It is in our
>interest to provide the defaults we have.  Our interests have existed
>since the beginning of the project.  Changing our interests now would
>create a different project.

FWIW, I agree.  Changing things now would only serve to guarantee
breakage in many existing applications.  The benefit of theoretically
not breaking some unspecified other applications is definitely not worth
it.

cgf


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