Program names and "pollution"

Posted Apr 7, 2019 0:13 UTC (Sun) by rossmohax (guest, #71829)
In reply to: Program names and "pollution" by kandreas
Parent article: Program names and "pollution"

deprecate gracefully by introducing startup delay of 10 seconds every major release

Program names and "pollution"

Posted Apr 9, 2019 1:40 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (2 responses)

This is an entertaining idea. My practical perspective is as a user I would not be entertained to debug this.

Program names and "pollution"

Posted Apr 9, 2019 15:16 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Hm, you could deprecate gracefully by producing a non-interruptible animation of a steam locomotive every time someone types the old names? :P :P

Program names and "pollution"

Posted Apr 9, 2019 23:35 UTC (Tue) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

You joke, but I'm pretty sure that Android did something similar to the delay thing...but I don't remember the details, maybe somebody else can furnish them. My recollection is that they wanted to force application developers to link against a new incompatible version of some library (maybe libc/bionic?). So they added a startup delay (I guess to _start() or something) and increased the delay every few weeks until the users noticed.