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Abigail
Date:
February 24, 2009 09:16
Subject:
Re: deprecating Switch.pm
Message ID:
20090224171633.GD20148@almanda
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:13:55AM -0000, Robin Barker wrote:
> 
> > Shall we use 'deprecated' as the name for this warning? It is already in
> > use and it is off by default. If we change that, users may get loads of
> > warnings they don't get yet.
> 
> We could separate deprecated into deprecated_code and deprecated_module
> and have deplacated_code DEFAULT_OFF and deprecated_module DEFAULT_ON


So, for things that when change are (hopefully) fixed reasonable quickly
(by installing a module), we warn by default, but things that require
more work (and hence time) to fix we keep silent?



Abigail
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