Generic rootless

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alan Hourihane wrote:

> 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,

Input noted.  We agree completely.

Harold