Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Oct 18, 2007, at 3:52 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated "deprecated" is a status that the author gives to code to say that
there is a better version available which should be used instead.
It's not a mark of whether something works or not.exactly my thinking.
however, you suggested the use of the "deprecated" flag to nicolas request about "designed for pd 0.33 or to compile with an old gcc". in my understanding, these are things that do not make an object "deprecated", and it seems like in your understanding too (or not?)
I read it as something that used to work but not longer does with newer version. That would either be deprecated or abandoned.
hmm, i still don't understand it (not that i want this thread to become to long; it probably isn't that interesting at all).
but: "It's not a mark of whether something works or not" (quoting your email 2007-10-17 19:14) and "something that used to work but not longer does with newer version" (quoting your email 2007-10-18 15:40) is - at least for me - mutually exclusive.
quoting the wikipedia-article you mentioned: "The deprecated feature still works in the current version of the software" is also in plain contradiction to your today's quote.
for me an example of a "deprecated" external is "OSCx"; but of course this is a bit problematic, since i think that only the person in charge of a piece of software can actually "deprecate" it. i haven't heard from jdl in a long time...
mfa.sdr IOhannes