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On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:10:49 +0000, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > 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. +1 > 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 Clark -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous