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Re: remove 'exit'?
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: remove 'exit'? |
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Mon, 02 May 2011 08:47:13 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> FWIW, I also agree with just removing the module instead of trying to
> ever-escalate warnings. My experience is that few people are likely to
> deal with it until it becomes an error regardless of warning.
Alas, I don't think it becomes an error even if we remove it -- I recall
that gnulib-tool just prints another warning for unknown modules. But
it shouldn't do any harm, which is the important aspect.
I have removed the module now.
> I would agree even more with keeping the module as an "alias" for stdlib
> so as to avoid this seemingly-gratuitious backward incompatibility, but
> nobody suggested that, so I guess I won't :).
It is more work documenting solutions like that... I hope it won't be
necessary.
/Simon
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