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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:52:52PM -0800, Leon Timmermans wrote: > This means however that we have about 80 'X' symbols (exported but not > officially part of the API), without anyone realizing. This is a bad > thing IMO. On the short term, I would suggest moving them to a more Agree. > visible place, though that requires either adding some logic to > makedef or dropping SFIO support. If this is the tradeoff, then I think drop sfio support. Does it even work still? Does anyone use it? I suspect that we do this by announcing as part of the 5.16 release notes that we intend to do this (and why), proceed on the assumption that we're going to get zero replies, and if anyone complains in years to come a: if it's about the lack of notice, point them at the relevant documentation b: if it's about the policy, ask them to help support it This sort of approach (asking, but not trying *too* hard at asking) seems to have worked quite well at getting rid of stuff before (eg suidperl. Zero complaints on that one) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next