Keep deprecated methods for one or two versions? (was Re: Aboutdeprecated methods)

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Tue Sep 16 22:06:53 UTC 2003


David T. Lewis wrote:

>I would have voted for "wait two versions", but...
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>>>In fact I would favor to remove them all and create a package with 
>>>them so that people can still load it for documentation purpose.
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>This is a great idea, so I vote for "wait one version, and save
>the removed stuff in a package for documentation purpose."
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>We will sometimes have packages on SqueakMap that lose their
>maintainers, or that just do not get updated very often. By keeping
>track of the removed methods as Stef suggested, it will be easier
>for a maintainer to fix problems in an older package.
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>

Okay then, I will go with waiting one version then, and keeping the 
removed methods for each Squeak release in a package.  (Stef agreed with 
this too.)

- Doug




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