Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 25 11:41:12 UTC 2011


On 25 July 2011 12:27, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
> My two cents after reading this whole thread:
>
> like it or not, portupgrade is currently the "official" tool (it's in
> the Handbook and all other docs).
> So in my view, this is what needs to be done:
> a) select a new "official tool"
> b) create or update said tool so it is working to 95% of all the wishes
> c) update all the documentation pointing to this new tool, and set a
> warning ("the old tool, portupgrade, is going away in X years")
> d) wait X years
> e) remove portupgrade
>
> As Doug wrote, change is hard. But there is a difference between
> change because all other options has run out of time, and planned
> change.
> We can make it less hard, at the cost of a longer timeframe.

The usual process of deprecaction is to add a warning in one release,
and then remove it in the next.

While I appreciate portupgrade isn't part of the base system, I think
this process would be appropriate.

Chris


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