Deprecate lib/find{,depth}.pl with a warning

diff --git a/lib/find.pl b/lib/find.pl
index ee5dc5d..e8e4eb7 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/find.pl
+++ b/lib/find.pl
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# This library is deprecated and unmaintained. It is included for
+# compatibility with Perl 4 scripts which may use it, but it will be
+# removed in a future version of Perl. Please use the File::Find module
+# instead.
+
+warn( "Please use the File::Find module instead of the deprecated"
+     ." 'find.pl' library, which will be removed in the next major"
+     ." release of perl" );
+
 # Usage:
 #      require "find.pl";
 #
@@ -10,11 +19,11 @@
 #              to $dir when the function is called.  The function may
 #              set $prune to prune the tree.
 #
-# This library is primarily for find2perl, which, when fed
+# For example,
 #
-#   find2perl / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
+#   find / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
 #
-# spits out something like this
+# corresponds to this
 #
 #      sub wanted {
 #          /^\.nfs.*$/ &&

diff --git a/lib/finddepth.pl b/lib/finddepth.pl
index bfa44bb..6a177c6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/finddepth.pl
+++ b/lib/finddepth.pl
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# This library is deprecated and unmaintained. It is included for
+# compatibility with Perl 4 scripts which may use it, but it will be
+# removed in a future version of Perl. Please use the File::Find module
+# instead.
+
+warn( "Please use the File::Find module instead of the deprecated"
+     ." 'finddepth.pl' library, which will be removed in the next"
+     ." major release of perl" );
+
 # Usage:
 #      require "finddepth.pl";
 #
@@ -10,11 +19,11 @@
 #              to $dir when the function is called.  The function may
 #              set $prune to prune the tree.
 #
-# This library is primarily for find2perl, which, when fed
+# For example,
 #
-#   find2perl / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
+#   find / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
 #
-# spits out something like this
+# corresponds to this
 #
 #      sub wanted {
 #          /^\.nfs.*$/ &&