RFC: reduce number of alias parameters

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Dec 11 17:37:11 UTC 2017


On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 01:27:29PM +0100, David Disseldorp via samba-technical wrote:
> 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.

+1 from me. It would be better to deprecate them first, then
remove on next release. But yeah, they really should go :-).

Thanks Björn !



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