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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