From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78601381F3 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11344E08E8; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05515E06CC for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FD833E918 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.462 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.462 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.066, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.394, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IyZflzNP0-Bj for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4AE533E8D5 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzjXX-00079C-2t for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:26:19 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:26:19 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:26:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: fortran-2.eclass - Support for bin package system without compiler Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <51E7942A.7070309@gentoo.org> <20130718091255.594be68a@gentoo. org> <51E79931.5040206@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT 80384ce /usr/src/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) X-Archives-Salt: 308613cb-c3a6-49e5-8b93-cd31d50358d2 X-Archives-Hash: 1d45a99bc8a6ff1342f6082c910af989 Justin posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:28:49 +0200 as excerpted: > + case ${EAPI:-0} in > + 0|1|2|3) > + eqawarn "The fortran-2.eclass is going to deprecate support ^^^^^^^^^^^ That reads strange to me. Deprecated doesn't mean it no longer works; it means it's declared obsolete and recommended against but it still works for now, thus giving users a time to migrate.[1] So "is going to deprecate" seems strange. It should be "has deprecated", or rewording a bit more "support is deprecated for" or the like. Because by the time someone's actually reading that output, the warning is already there; the deprecation has already happened. Alternatively, keep the future tense and say "will be removed" or some such, or use a hybrid, "support is deprecated and will be removed". --- [1] deprecate/deprecation online references: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deprecate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation http://www.thefreedictionary.com/deprecate http://www.google.com/search?q=define:deprecate -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman