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On 27 June 2013 10:54, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us> wrote: > To summarize/clarify my position: An end-user has no right to complain > that a deprecated feature got in the way of something and was removed. > An end user could very well complain that a feature was gone without a > technical reason (see below). The time to have that discussion is *before* the feature is deprecated. If there is not a sufficiently good reason to deprecate the feature then it should not be deprecated. What you are suggesting is that we can only remove deprecated features when you and some group of unnamed individuals have approved the reason for removal. I dont think that flies. Any such issues should be raised when the features is proposed for deprecation. If the pumpking, who has final decision on the matter, decides the item is deprecated then that should be sufficient. Frankly if I encountered a sufficiently long deprecated feature in part of the code I tend to work on and it got in my way in the slightest bit I would chainsaw it without question or even discussion, and would not expect any come back on it. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next