[pulseaudio-discuss] [patch] purge autoload API

[jnqnfe at gmail.com]

On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 11:46 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 11:30 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 21:55 +0100, jnqnfe at gmail.com wrote:
> > > deprecated since 2009
> > 
> > IMHO it doesn't matter when the API was deprecated. If some closed-
> > source and now unmaintained (and hence unfixable) application was
> > using
> > the API in 2008, and someone somewhere is still using that
> > application,
> > we shouldn't remove the API without bumping the library major
> > version.
> > However, I still think this patch is fine, because I find it
> > extremely
> > unlikely that there's any application in use that still links to
> > this
> > API.
> > 
> > Arun, Georg, any objections to applying this patch?
> 
> Actually, there are language bindings (at least pyglet for Python)
> that
> use the API. I'm afraid removing the API completely breaks the
> bindings
> even if there are no applications using the API. Based on this, I'm
> against removing the API. It's not like it causes any significant
> maintenance burden anyway.

Ok