On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Magesh Umasankar <umagesh@apache.org> wrote:
> From: "Stefan Bodewig" <bodewig@apache.org>
>
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Magesh Umasankar <umagesh@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> > How about showing deprecated warnings only when ant
>> > is run in -deprecated mode?
>>
>> This would make things even worse for us. Users that don't care
>> what will be broken by an update, will never see this warning.
>
> I was just proposing an alternative much like javac which *warns*
> user that user has used deprecated stuff.
I know, but I think it is good to annoy users enough so that they are
going to upgrade 8-)
> If user is so concerned, user will compile with -deprecation turned
> on.
The bigger problem are the users who are not so concerned.
>> Nobody is going to enable that switch.
>
> How are you so sure? :-)
I have that crystal ball, you know.
Stefan
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