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Re: date -I now undocumented
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: date -I now undocumented |
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Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:42:13 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
> Well I don't suppose we will ever see the word "deprecated" in any of
> your Info or man pages,
No, actually we do see it. For example, CVS coreutils.texi says that
cp --reply is deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in 2008.
> Contrast this with python, which even gives "future warnings".
We also do that with coreutils. For example:
$ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
$ unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
$ touch 0101000099 foo
touch: warning: `touch 0101000099' is obsolete; use `touch -t 199901010000.00'
$ ls -l 0101000099 foo
ls: 0101000099: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 0 Jan 1 1999 foo
(That 'touch' diagnostic is not documented. There are limits to what
should be documented.)
The question is what is the right thing to do for 'date -I'. Perhaps
we should improve coreutils, but simply documenting the current
behavior as-is is probably not an improvement.