On 01/11/2012, at 7:38 PM, Adam Murdoch wrote:

> 
> On 01/11/2012, at 7:21 PM, Hans Dockter wrote:
> 
>> We should urgently change our deprecation message to reflect reality. From 
>> "will be removed in the next version" to "might be removed in the next major 
>> version". We should do this already for 1.3.
> 
> Everything that is currently deprecated we are planning to remove in the 2.0 
> release. I don't think there's anything we want to keep. So the message above 
> doesn't quite reflect our intentions: "might be removed" isn't strong enough. 
> It "will be removed" or "we plan to remove" or "is scheduled to be removed".
> 

I like “is scheduled to be removed”.

> When we get closer to 2.0 this will change, where newly deprecated features 
> will have to stick around until 3.0. Same for deeply entrenched features that 
> we might deprecate like the old publication dsl. And there are also 
> incubating features that we deprecate that we intent to remove sooner than 
> 2.0. In the release notes, we've started being explicit about exactly which 
> version a given deprecated feature will be removed in. I would do the same 
> with the deprecation message, e.g. "will be removed in Gradle 2.0".

-- 
Luke Daley
Principal Engineer, Gradleware 
http://gradleware.com


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