Re: [MirageOS-devel] removal of deprecated config in mirage 3.0 (mirage configure --unix/--xen, add_to_opam_packages, add_to_libraries)

[Mindy <mindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/19/2016 05:43 PM, Amir Chaudhry wrote:

> > On 19 Jul 2016, at 15:14, Mindy <mindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/19/2016 12:56 PM, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> > > I’ve no problem with those flags going away, but I do think it’s important that we consider how.  There may 
> > > be lots of blog posts/videos out there with the old way of doing it and I don’t think we’ve communicated 
> > > enough that this is deprecated.  I’m not sure how many people will have read Functoria’s docs :)  This may 
> > > also be why they keep creeping back into mirage-skeleton.
> > >
> > > Some suggestions which might mitigate later confusion:
> > >
> > > - Add a note to the breaking-changes page now to highlight this actually is 
> > > deprecated. It clearly mentions other things but not this change.
> > I don't want to do this because we haven't yet released the version that 
> > actually breaks this for users.  Right now, anyone who is using a version of 
> > `mirage` that no longer supports this has opted into the pre-release 3.0 
> > universe of packages, and is coping with a set of breaking changes that's 
> > larger than just this one.
> >
> > The deprecation of --unix and --xen is actually already noted on this page in the 
> > "Deprecation" section, alongside add_to_ocamlfind_libraries and add_to_opam_packages, but 
> > concluding this from the "`get_mode` is deprecated" written there requires some knowledge 
> > of Functoria.  I'll add a line that makes this more clear.
> Maybe my earlier point was unclear but what you’ve suggested (and put in a PR) 
> is what I was asking for. Thanks :)
> I‘ve submitted a PR to change a couple of the onboarding/tutorial pages.
*cough* um 
https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/pull/475#issuecomment-233802501 , 
we actually don't need to deprecate --unix and --xen (but should add 
--virtio and --solo5 if we don't).
-Mindy

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