Lack of deprecation period for short option changes

[Martin Pool]

On  9 Jan 2007, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The recent short option changes seemed to go in without a deprecation
> > period. Was this intended? Was the SHORT_OPTIONS[] thing not meant for
> > plugins to use?
> 
> These changes break bzrtools shell, for example, because
> Option.short_name is no longer callable.  I think a deprecation period
> would be appropriate, unless there are overriding concerns.

OK, we can certainly set .short_name to be callable again -- I guess I
will store the value in _short_name and make the method return that.

To support SHORT_OPTIONS we might need a special object that stays in
sync with the new stuff.  What did your plugin do with it, James?

-- 
Martin