Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mike Barcroft wrote: > > > > Deprecated features should generate warnings. > > > > > > Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy support." I agree that >

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-25 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mike Barcroft wrote: > > > > Deprecated features should generate warnings. > > > > > > Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy supp

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-25 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:45AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike Barcroft wrote: > > > Deprecated features should generate warnings. > > > > Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy support." I agree that > > features we don't want to suppor

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-24 Thread Doug Barton
Mike Barcroft wrote: > I don't have any objections to making this a supported legacy mode, > but I think deprecated features (things we *want* to go away) should > produce warnings. Right-o no argument there. I'll wait for Joe to comment on the patch then... -- "We have known fr

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-24 Thread Mike Barcroft
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Deprecated features should generate warnings. > > Ok, then let's call it "Undocumented legacy support." I agree that > features we don't want to support anymore should generate warnings that > encourage users to change. Howe

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-24 Thread Doug Barton
Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A couple months ago an improvement was added to the color support of ls > > to use a wider variety of colors, indicated by alphabet characters > > instead of numbers. While I think this is a good change, it included a > >

Re: LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-24 Thread Mike Barcroft
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple months ago an improvement was added to the color support of ls > to use a wider variety of colors, indicated by alphabet characters > instead of numbers. While I think this is a good change, it included a > warning when users have the old st

LSCOLORS warning is silly

2002-02-24 Thread Doug Barton
A couple months ago an improvement was added to the color support of ls to use a wider variety of colors, indicated by alphabet characters instead of numbers. While I think this is a good change, it included a warning when users have the old style numeric flags in their LSCOLORS variable.