OldSocket backward compatibility considered harmful
goran.krampe at bluefish.se
goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Tue Nov 16 19:07:45 UTC 2004
Hi Michael and all!
Michael Rueger <michael at squeakland.org> wrote:
> Michael Rueger wrote:
>
> > Unless somebody provides a really compelling argument why he needs these
> > methods they should be removed not just deprecated.
>
> Apologies in so far as this update actually just came into the stream, I
> got confused with what the current update number was ;-)
>
> But to reiterate, applications using the old methods (like HTTPSocket)
> should be ported forward and not Socket be made backward compatible a
> year after the rewrite.
I actually have no idea how these came in, it seems like a harvester
should have reacted. Anyway, I say BE GONE WITH THEM! :)
> Michael
regards, Göran
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