Depreciating .live()

Depreciating .live()

Hello dear jQuery community,

I've been away from this forum for some time now and I'm not up to date with upcoming changes in the jQuery API, so this question might have already been answered.

Since .delegate() has been around for some time now and since many members of this community and other bloggers have promoted it over .live() for performance, I am wondering if the presence of .live() still makes sense in the jQuery API.
I'm aware that .delegate() currently uses .live() internally, but it seems that delegate could be implemented on its own and that it could save some lines of code and some complexity in event.js

I'd just like to have your feelings on that idea.

Regards,

Louis-Rémi