[Taxacom] "deprecation" (was Taxonomy... in the 21st century)

[Jim Croft]

Also heavily used in W3C and other software standards.  But there is a
subtle difference.  Deprecation in this sense means that "it still
works but we would rather you did not use it if you could possibly
avoid it because there are better ways of doing business and there is
no guarantee that it will continue working should you try to use it
sometime in the future".  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation

I am not sure either nomenclatural code can accommodate this level of
transitional nuance or optionality.  When it comes to conservation and
rejection we do not have a choice - it is "the law"...  That is not to
say "the law" can't be, and isn't, regularly broken... :)

jim

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:27 AM, George D.F. (Buz) Wilson
<buz at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> [for those that may be unfamiliar with the word, "deprecation" is used
> in the LINUX open-source world for software packages that have become
> outdated, and possibly problematic for newer systems. Maybe they should
> call such packages "dubious software"...]

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