Is it ok now to delete the methods deprecated in 1.4?

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Wed Apr 16 03:46:54 BST 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> With the cleanup of versionedfiles in progress, deleting deprecated
>  methods would make quite a difference; if no more merges from trunk->1.4
>  are planned I'd like to do this...

Our general policy is to keep deprecated methods around for a few
releases, to avoid breaking external code that uses it.  If it takes
extra work to keep supporting them then we can make an exception; if
it's just that you'd like to shrink the code I'd suggest waiting for
1.6 at least.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>



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