[Ns-developers] Deprecated Attribute?

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

> Yes, but we don't use these deprecated functions ourselves and we want
> to make sure that we _don't_ use them, so, why would we use 
> this flag ?

This gets back to another one of those bigger issues that we've ignored:
How one is expected to develop models using ns-3?

Right now we provide a nice environment that builds ns-3 including all of
the samples and examples.  If I were walking up to the system, I would
download ns-3.1 and then look in the top-level wscript and find the
following

    # process subfolders from here
    bld.add_subdirs('src')
    bld.add_subdirs('samples utils examples')

and I would add a new line

    bld.add_subdirs('craig')

and then build whatever I needed in that subdirectory (udp-echo-craig.cc and
wscript):

This means that the people who use this flag include our clients and the
people who need to see it.

Unless we expect people to work outside our environment; and I've never seen
anything describing such a thing.  But then, I've don't recall ever seeing
anything written down regarding how we expect people to use/extend the
system, etc.

-- Craig