15 Apr
2012
15 Apr
'12
8:29 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
I think that a period of 9 month/1 year between each stage is a good compromise. That lets 18 months/2 years to switch between the announce and the removal. This let also the time to see if the alternative is a real one.
I think that's way too short. There should be at least 3 years between the new alternative being widely available (so not just Boost having released it, but it being part of major Linux distro's too) and the old feature being deprecated. Olaf