Deprecated methods (was Re: Framebuffer driver now in Beta...)

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Wed Aug 20 19:38:23 UTC 2003


Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> Hi alan
>
>> For 3.6 I would suggest that
>> - all obsolete/depreciated methods be removed
>
>
> They will but not in 3.6 else people will have headaches to find why 
> their system is breaking.
> Deprecated methods cost nothing and help maintainers so no problem 
> with them


Right.  The idea is that we will remove all the deprecated methods at 
the beginning of 3.7alpha, this is a pretty standard practice.  The idea 
is that the methods will be deprecated but still working (with the 
warnings) for one release (3.6 final) but will be gone in 3.7.

- Doug




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