[PATCH] new applet: nmeter + Off Topic

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Michael S. Zick wrote:

> On Thu July 6 2006 12:05, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 July 2006 11:49 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > > Looks better, yes. Still should there be the possibility to turn 2.6 or
> > > 2.4 support completely off? It would save at lease the int if not more..
> >
> > If we add a global "enable 2.4 support" switch, then we should remember this
> > is here.
> >
> > I'm on the fence about whether a global "enable 2.6 support" switch makes
> > sense.  Considering it won't ship in a release before December, so it's
> > effectively 2007 by then, I'm leaning against it.  A 2.4 switch gives us
> > something to hide devfs names and devfsd behind,
> >
> Would it make sense then to start adding
> __attribute__((depreciated)) when code on the "endangered code" list
> is touched?

not to be overly pedantic (who, me?) but, once and for all, it's
"deprecated", not "depreciated."

yours in pedantry,
rday