About deprecated methods

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Sep 13 03:52:08 UTC 2003


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:38:03PM -0400, Doug Way wrote:
> Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> >You're saying methods deprecated in 3.6 would be removed when 3.7 becomes
> >final (or gamma)?  Ah, that's different from what I remember you saying...
> >I thought you said deprecated methods would be removed at the beginning
> >of the 3.7 cycle.
> >
> 
> Actually you were right before, I was/am going to remove the deprecated 
> methods at the beginning of the 3.7alpha cycle. (which would be very soon)
> 
> I only mentioned the time between the final versions above because many 
> people will not be continuously updating their packages/applications 
> during the alpha cycle, they'll only update them from one final release 
> to the next. (say, Comanche for example)  So for these people, the 
> period of time that matters is in between the x.y and x.y+1 final versions.
> 
> The time from deprecation to removal could be as short as ~2 months for 
> people continuously following the alpha stream, but I would argue that 
> people who follow the alpha stream are "test pilots" who shouldn't 
> expect as much stability.

This is a fair point.  Well, either way is now fine with me; if it doesn't
work out, it would be easy to try the other.

Joshua

> - Doug
> 
> 



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