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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:51:54 -0600

On 02/08/2018 09:45 AM, Till Straumann wrote:
> On 02/08/2018 12:45 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:
>> Isn't that what "deprecated" means: supported but discouraged?
> 
> I thought it also indicates that support will go away (which would make
> maintaining applications that need to be built against newer as well
> as older versions of epics a pain).
> 
> A side-effect are many compiler warnings that could obscure more
> serious issues.

I agree, I would be in favour of removing the EPICS_DEPRECATED marker.
This is a really old API.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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