Bug #56353 for Perl4-CoreLibs: Not so deprecated

Wed Apr 07 11:35:38 2010 IKEGAMI [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Not so deprecated

"This is a collection of .pl files that have historically been bundled with the Perl core but are now deprecated." First, they were never deprecated. Just their inclusion in core was deprecated. Now, even that's not the case. Maybe the text should read "This is a collection of .pl files that have historically been bundled with the Perl core. They may cease to be bundled with the Perl core in the future."

Wed Apr 07 11:48:14 2010 zefram [...] fysh.org - Correspondence added

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Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #56353] Not so deprecated
Date:	Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:47:47 +0100
To:	ikegami via RT <bug-Perl4-CoreLibs [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Zefram <zefram [...] fysh.org>

ikegami via RT wrote: Show quoted text

>First, they were never deprecated. Just their inclusion in core was >deprecated.

Well, kinda. Their use in new code has long been discouraged, but indeed their existence and use in existing code is not deprecated. Show quoted text

>Now, even that's not the case.

Technically, their inclusion in core is still deprecated, they're just not going to warn about it in 5.12. The plan is that they will warn about the deprecation in 5.14, and then be absent from 5.16. Anyway, you're quite right on the general point that the description is imprecise about their status, and that their status has changed since I wrote it. I'll revise that for the next release. -zefram

Wed Apr 07 11:48:16 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Apr 10 15:43:23 2010 ZEFRAM [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Fixed in Perl4-CoreLibs-0.001, just uploaded to CPAN.

Sat Apr 10 15:43:27 2010 ZEFRAM [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'