Generic rootless
Alan Hourihane
alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 20 17:31:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:27:59PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Kensuke,
>
> Okay, I got it to build and run. It is very nice.
>
> What you think about renaming old '-rootless'to '-oldrootless' and
> calling the new '-win32rootless' just '-rootess'?
>
> -win32rootless is going to cause a lot of trouble for people to
> remember, and most people will get confused about the distinction
> between -rootless and -win32rootless. Is there any reason to suspect
> that the old '-oldrootless' will remain in use after the new '-rootless'
> is available? It would seem to me that we might even want to just
> replace the original rootless functionality with the new functionality
> that uses the shared code.
>
> Anybody have some input on this?
I agree Harold.
Deprecate the old one and remove the code, unless there's some
benefits to using it.
Alan.
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