I did all of that
	- deprecated cat
	- class comment
	- basicNew

for ruleDate and friends in unstable following brent suggestion

Stef

On 3 oct. 04, at 20:45, Doug Way wrote:

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> On Oct 2, 2004, at 4:54 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
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>> deprecating methods is simple and works well.
>> Now I'm wondering how we could deprecate classes?
>> Let them in the image in a special categoriy and redefining basicNew
>> to use the same deprecation mechanism?
>> Any other idea?
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> Good question.  I was wondering how to do this with TwoWayScrollPane 
> which is deprecated.
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> There are a lot of options.  Moving the class to a new category called 
> Deprecated might be good.  (This would make it easy to know which 
> classes need to be deleted in the following release.)  On top of that, 
> I guess you could redefine basicNew or new or something to use the 
> deprecation mechanism, so that it shows up during runtime when you 
> have deprecation warnings turned on.
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> Other things you could do might be adding to the class comment or 
> adding a new method category called 'this class is deprecated'.  But 
> these are probably redundant if you've already moved the class to the 
> Deprecated class category.  So I'd say maybe just do the two things in 
> the previous paragraph.
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> - Doug
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>> For example we could apply that to RuleDate classes to give a try.
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>> Stef
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