[racket-dev] Deprecating collects

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:30:33 -0400 (EDT), Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>> - combinator-parser [...]
>> - test-box-recovery [...]
>> - tex2page [...]
>
> These seem fine with me, because I think they have no current users.
>
> We've had enough versions with the test-box recovery tool that if
> someone really needs it, they can run an older version to get to the
> new version.
>
>> - defmacro in mzlib
>
> I'm skeptical that this one should be removed,. At a minimum, though,
> it could be better explained/discouraged in the docs for the hack that
> it is.

Why do you want to keep this?

>> - mzlib [...]
>> - mzscheme [...]
>
> I don't think these should be removed or deprecated, ever. I have lots
> of code that still refers to them --- I doubt that I'm alone --- and I
> think we should be able to support them.

I agree that these should never be removed. I would not mind if they
were marked in some way as "these are here for legacy reasons. New
code should use XYZ" with specific pointers and helpful advice.

Robby