[fpc-devel] Breaking change in FPC 2.6.1

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
>
>> Well, then they'll have to live with the warning.
>> 
>> And this is the point of having the warning in the first place. Make people 
>> aware of a coming change.
>
> As already mentioned in this thread, a mere hint about "may change somehow, 
> in the next version" is of no real use. IMO "deprecated" means to the user 
> that he should change his code *now*, in anticipation of the coming change. 
> This obviously is not the case with the breaking change of the bookmark type, 
> where *no* workaround exists in the current release.

Instead of repeating the remark, suggesting a solution would be useful.

Criticism is easy. Coming up with solutions obviously much less so.

Michael.