[Asterisk-Dev] removing depreciated code?

[Steven]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 13:58 -0400, Jerris, Michael MI wrote:
> > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> 
> > >>
> > >
> > > perhaps a solution could be found by #ifdefing the deprecated code  
> > > around say, DEPRECATED_1.2, and then making it a compile time  
> > > option in the makefile to either build with backward compatibility  
> > > or to have it removed for those who'd prefer it without the  
> > > deprecated code.
> > >
> > > i'm making the big assumption here however that it's as simple as  
> > > wrapping ifdefs around the code which needs to be taken out.
> > 
> > that sounds to me a brilliant idea. that way it will be possible to  
> > try out and test a clean 1.2 installation..
> > 
> 
> I think this would be quite useful, particularly when we go to rip it
> all out in the dev branch post 1.2.  A patch to bugs.digium.com would be
> much appretiated.  It would of course default to being included in the
> 1.2 release branch, but people would have the option to turn it off at
> compile time.  Thanks in advance for the contribution.

Let us take Roy's advice, let's not add code to 1.2. Save that for a
1.2.1 release. It may be a feature add, but let's not delay the current
1.2 release further. 

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Steven Critchfield
critch at basesys.com
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