develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from August 2016

Re: RFC: perldeprecated.pod

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
August 25, 2016 17:36
Subject:
Re: RFC: perldeprecated.pod
Message ID:
fd63d796-1fee-6831-9080-c242f5c3a41d@khwilliamson.com
On 08/05/2016 04:07 AM, Sawyer X wrote:
>
> On 08/04/2016 10:35 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
>> I think we should have a pod that lists the features that are
>> deprecated, and maybe those that are merely discouraged, when they
>> gained this status, and when the deprecated ones are scheduled to be
>> removed, or that there is no current plan to remove them.
>>
>> This would help us remember to actually do the removals, and be
>> transparent to our customers.
>
> Another aspect of this is that it would make it easier for companies to
> form policies of their code to not use those mentioned and to update it
> regularly.
>

At some point I will get around to adding this pod if no one else makes 
a start of it in the meantime.  But it won't be for quite a while for 
me, so I encourage other(s) to create a start for it.

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About