On 2012-09-16, at 03:19, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> I didn't remove the methods from Utilities because I want to deprecate them first, but before they are deprecated, the senders from the Trunk packages have to be rewritten.

+1

We tried proper deprecation in the past and it were not that thorough, but we should try again. That is, move deprecated classes/methods into a "Deprecated-in-4.4" package and keep that loaded by default at least for one more release, but remove it at some point.

> Colin proposed that multiple instances might be useful, though I still don't see any real world use cases for it, but I'm not against not overriding #new.

The one use case I encounter quite often is temporarily setting different initials for generated methods. Might be useful for tests too. 

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