Bug 698652 - 9.22: deprecating DELAYBIND is an incompatible change
Summary: 9.22: deprecating DELAYBIND is an incompatible change
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Ghostscript
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 9.21
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P4 normal
Assignee: Default assignee
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Reported: 2017-10-10 00:45 UTC by Reinhard Nißl
Modified: 2017-10-10 01:28 UTC (History)
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Description Reinhard Nißl 2017-10-10 00:45:32 UTC 
Hi,

News.htm doesn't mention deprecating DELAYBIND as incompatible change.

Bye.
Comment 1 Ken Sharp 2017-10-10 01:28:31 UTC 
(In reply to Reinhard Nißl from comment #0)
> Hi,
> 
> News.htm doesn't mention deprecating DELAYBIND as incompatible change.

This doesn't really seem like an incompatible change to me. 

As the log message for the commit implementing the change notes, we don't believe DELAYBIND does anything useful which cannot be achieved another way.

In addition, if you do use DELAYBIND then it will give you a warning, and you can use REALLYDELAYBIND instead, so the functionality is not lost. As the warning message states, anyone using this switch is encouraged to contact us and discuss it. I'd suggest you do that (but please don't raise a bug report for it, its not a bug).

Finally, this is a documentation issue, and we won't change news.htm now that the release is complete. If you feel strongly about this then I would urge you to download the release candidates in future and let us know about issues before we complete a release.