when do we remove deprecated features?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi,

The following is our `sys::*deprecated-functions-alist*`:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
((WILDCARD:wildcard-matcher "Use ~S instead." FNMATCH-MATCHER)
 (WILDCARD:match "Use ~S instead." FNMATCH)
 (SOCKET-SERVICE-PORT "Use ~S instead." SERVICE)
 (RENAME-DIR "Use ~S instead." RENAME-DIRECTORY)
 (MAKE-DIR "Use ~S instead." MAKE-DIRECTORY)
 (DELETE-DIR "Use ~S instead." DELETE-DIRECTORY)
 (FFI:FOREIGN-ADDRESS-NULL "The FFI now returns C NULL pointers as Lisp NIL. Use the function ~S instead." NULL)
 (DEFINE-SETF-METHOD "Use ~S instead." DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER)
 (GET-SETF-METHOD-MULTIPLE-VALUE "Use ~S instead." GET-SETF-EXPANSION)
 (SPECIAL-FORM-P "Use ~S instead." SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P)
 (TYPE-EXPAND-1 "Use ~S instead." TYPE-EXPAND)
 (GENTEMP "This function creates symbols that cannot be garbage-collected. Use ~S instead." GENSYM)
 (SET "This function name is anachronistic. Use ~S ~S instead." SETF SYMBOL-VALUE))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

1. We should keep the CLtL2 and ANSI CL deprecated symbols.

2. We can drop our extensions:

type-expand-1:        deprecated since 2002-01-08
foreign-address-null: deprecated since 2003-08-05
rename-dir, make-dir, delete-dir:      2007-12-31
socket-service-port:  deprecated since 2005-11-09

3. We should keep wildcard (deprecated since 2011-05-17, after the last release)

WDYT?

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