Re: [opendkim:bugs] #222 Enhance config file element handling for unrecognized tags/parameters

From: A. Schulze <sca_at_andreasschulze.de>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 23:30:27 +0200

Andreas:
> >is it called "minimum surprise" ?

SM:
> A feature was removed. In this case it is better to fix the configuration
> file instead of having the user believe that the feature will still be
> working. How about printing a warning in the next version and failing in
> versions after that?

Yea, simply print a warning "option foo is deprecated and now ignored"
that's exactly I would love to see in any software.

Andreas
Received on Sun May 03 2015 - 21:30:45 PST