[GRASS5] Re: GRASS: Old code in openvect.c

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:44:02AM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi David
> 
> David D Gray wrote:
> > I don't have any plans to keep this.  I recently suggested that the
> > backward compatibility stuff be deprecated. I think that is the best
> > option, rather than just removing the old stuff straight away as these
> > routines are apparently needed to open old maps (I used grep to track
> > back through the call sequence). Maybe we can rip out the old rubbish
> > in one go during the 5.1 devel sequence.  So I would leave it for now
> > (maybe put a marker string in to remind us that it is to be removed -
> > eg /* ***DEPRECATED*** */ ). But if it is really inconvenient I'm sure
> > no-one would miss it, but if you still have doubts, you could perhaps
> > ask on the mailing list. No-one objected to my proposal to deprecate
> > however.
> 
> It's not inconvenient, I just like to clean things up when I see
> something like this. Keeping it is fine with me and I'll put in the
> marker string you suggested.
> 
> Markus, should we start marking files like this with the (/*
> ***DEPRECATED*** */) marker David suggested?

Yes, please go ahead. When building the new 5.1devel, we can take out this
stuff.

Markus

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