On Oct 2, 2004, at 4:54 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:

> 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?

Good question.  I was wondering how to do this with TwoWayScrollPane 
which is deprecated.

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.

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.

- Doug


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