Re: Strawman Promises consensus position, based on Thursday's telechat

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> Can someone explain to me what the point of not deprecating a
> known-bad-thing is?


There's not universal agreement that it's bad and people are actually
using it.


Note that deprecating does not mean immediate
> removal. Just issueing warnings that it will be removed down the line
> and indicating what the replacement is. If you don't do that, I don't
> see why it's realistic to think you can deprecate it in two years
> time.
>

I'm not particularly interested in deprecating it, but I'd be willing to
discuss
it in a few years.

-Ekr