Re: Use of "?" for help has been deprecated for 8 years, can we drop it?

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 01.10.2020 um 15:06 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> 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.

A deprecation warning for a help option would somehow feel strange.

I would consider this a human-only interface that can be changed at
will, like HMP syntax.

Kevin

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