Discussion: Why is inet_addr in IO?

[Johan Tibell]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
wrote:

> Only if we run a deprecation cycle for at least one major version of
> network. Just removing a function breaks code for no reason and is
> user-hostile. It's important to give end users a warning that the function
> is going away and some time (12 months or more IMO) to fix their code,
> especially for packages that belong to the platform.
>

I like Java's policy of only deprecating (and often never removing)
functions that are actually dangerous to use (i.e. easy to use
incorrectly.)
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