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Surely the correct thing to do is to add telemetry to the application to get metrics on feature usage. And when the popularity of feature X happens to correlat
by forgottenpass 10y ago
Surely the correct thing to do is to add telemetry to the application to get metrics on feature usage.
And when the popularity of feature X happens to correlate with people running in environments that don't let the tool phone home through their default-deny traffic filters?
Fuck them and their use case for not letting you monitor ever little thing?
- numbsafari 10y agoMaybe they could bake a warning about the use of deprecated features into the default MOTD or some other system alert? Something like: "Hey, we are considering deprecating 'ls -P' and detected its use by your system. We'd love to work with you to ensure a smooth transition, check out 'man depwarn3754' for details on how you can help." The man page could include a notice about why they want to deprecate it, how you can get away from using it, and, how to contact them if you think it's an issue. It'd be a lot of leg work, that's for sure.
- rhinoceraptor 10y agoIt would get annoying really fast if every program decided to do that.