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Are you willing to take the risk? Deprecated might mean: There are known weaknesses. Or: Less reviewed code path.
by hyperman1 6y ago
Are you willing to take the risk? Deprecated might mean: There are known weaknesses. Or: Less reviewed code path.
- dtech 6y agoAs an initial upgrade, that is a decent strategy. Staying behind is even more insecure.
- kroeckx 6y agoIt's mostly about deprecating old APIs where a newer more general API is available, sometimes for more than 10 years.
- user5994461 6y agoDeprecated can mean anything. They cannot remove any function due to being a C shared library. Removing functions or global symbols would break linking and runtime initialization.