[m-dev.] x-flags vs x-flag

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 22:13, Zoltan Somogyi <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
>
> Two typos fixed by my last diff were caused by the one-character
> difference between e.g. javac-flags and javac-flag. The main difference
> between the two is not plural vs singular, but the fact that javac-flag
> quotes its singular argument, and javac-flags does not quote its possibly
> many arguments. And there are several other pairs of options for which
> the above is true.
>
> I propose that in every one of these cases, we change the main name of
> the x-flag optin (the advertised name, and the name used internally
> in the compiler) to x-quoted-flag. We would keep the x-flag name as a synonym,
> but also deprecate it, marking it for deletion in a future release.
>
> Does anyone object?

No objection from me.

> Apropo deprecating things, do we have a file in which we record what
> obsolete things we plan to either delete, or simply just mark as obsolete
> as a step towards even later deletion, at the next release? If not, we should
> create one.

The closest thing we have is RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT (which by the by
is out-of-date).

Julien.






>
> Zoltan.
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