Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 07:04:13 EST


On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that
> does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike
> experimental/broken.

and, as i've said before, i disagree. while one might debate what
those words *mean*, or which features should be tagged thusly, i think
there's a measurable value to be able to, with one mouse click, say
you want to do a build test on the kernel which does not incorporate
anything deemed deprecated and/or obsolete. if you don't agree,
however, no amount of explaining that on my part is going to change
your opinion.

rday
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