On 10/1/20 5:35 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago. We didn't have a
deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the
documentation and from help texts. Can we finally drop it?
I'm asking because there is a patch on the list that bypasses
is_help_option() to not add deprecated "?" to a new place: "[PATCH v2
1/4] keyval: Parse help options".
Did we ever issue a warning when it was used? It's easier to argue that
it can be dropped if users had notice of some form or another. That
said, I'm not heartbroken if we yank it immediately instead of letting
it live for 2 more releases.