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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>
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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.
>>>
>>>
>
>This is a great idea, so I vote for "wait one version, and save
>the removed stuff in a package for documentation purpose."
>
>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.
>
>
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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