RFC: reduce number of alias parameters

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Mon Dec 11 12:27:29 UTC 2017


On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:20:38 +0100, Björn JACKE via samba-technical wrote:

> I think it's not useful to have a huge number of aliases just to make the
> parameters expressable is different humand wordings or spellings. They increase
> the code and binary size and more importantly they make config parsing and more
> difficult and error prone. For some parameter aliases which are not very
> commonly used imho, I'd like to propose to remove them for the next release.

I'd be happy to see most for the aliases go, but would prefer to have
them deprecated (with warnings + documentation) for a release first,
rather than directly drop them in the next.

Cheers, David



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