[squeak-dev] RC-3 ready

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 00:09:26 UTC 2012


> TransferMorph>>#dropNotifyRecipient does not seem to be used in the trunk
> image: it's used in my own (old) code; the point here is that I would rather
> like an error due to the fact that #dropNotifyRecipient has actually been
> deprecated and is just missing, or even an error telling me it's going to be
> deprecated soon, better than having an artificial error looking like a
> leftover from a clean-up operation.
>
> Actually now that I think of it, the best would be a specific Error or
> Warning telling the method is on the death row, plus a preference allowing
> all these exceptions to be ignored (this would be by default) or raised
> (this would be "package transition mode", which I turn on when I want to see
> if my code uses deprecated stuff or not).

Yes that's how #deprecated: works.  Do you want to submit some package
updates then?  The release manager can decide whether he wants to
include them in 4.4.


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