Deprecations: Any reason left for warning stage?

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/29/2014 11:58 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>
> As far as I can see having deprecation messages as Warnings first
> actually leads to *more* build breakage (as many more people are
> building with -w than with -de) and less time for adapting code before
> it is made an error (because -w/-wi is not the default).

I agree with this. Warnings are an orthogonal to deprecation and the 
current practice causes quite some grief.