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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Tutorial corrections
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-25 07:57:41


Guess renaming .v2 to .jam in entire Boost C++ libraries codebase would be
good.

I would not want a warning thought - no need to make users' life harder
over a cosmetic issue.

Thanks,
Volodya

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 14:48 Paulo Márcio Figueiredo Alves <
pauloalves1986_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Yeah sorry, shame on me. It would be for the best, since the warning will
> push them to update.
> So deprecate it +1
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:36 AM Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 25.09.2015 07:22, Paulo Márcio Figueiredo Alves wrote:
>> >
>> > (Or may be it's time to deprecate some of them, such as the '.v2'
>> > variants that, I assume, as there for only historical reasons.)
>> >
>> >
>> > It sounds good, but I would deprecate only in the docs, not showing
>> > warnings etc. Many may use it, I don't know.
>>
>> On the contrary, deprecating a feature means:
>>
>> * not documenting it at all
>> * emitting a warning on its use
>>
>> Otherwise deprecation is void of any sense.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> --
>>
>> ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>>
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