Officially our policy is deprecated methods can be removed after they have been 
deprecated for at least one release.  Unofficially we've tended to follow the 
path of least resistance and only remove deprecated things when we had a 
reason.  This approach seems reasonable to me, as it inflicts the least pain on 
users.  

So I'm fine with removing these, if there's a reason.  

Alan.

On May 30, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Coveney wrote:

> I'm pinging dev directly because I am afraid this won't get any eyes
> otherwise. Also, because there is a bigger issue here: what should our
> policy on removing deprecated methods be? reference(Tuple), I'm looking at
> you.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Julien Le Dem (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>
> Date: 2012/5/30
> Subject: [jira] [Commented] (PIG-2732) Let's get rid of the deprecated
> Tuple methods
> To: pig-...@hadoop.apache.org
> 
> 
> 
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> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2732?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13286205#comment-13286205]
> 
> Julien Le Dem commented on PIG-2732:
> ------------------------------------
> 
> +1 it's been deprecated in the previous version of Pig. Nothing uses it
> inside Pig.
> Let's remove it.
> 
> 
>> Let's get rid of the deprecated Tuple methods
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> 
>>                Key: PIG-2732
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2732
>>            Project: Pig
>>         Issue Type: Improvement
>>           Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
>>           Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
>>            Fix For: 0.11
>> 
>>        Attachments: PIG-2732-0.patch
>> 
>> 
>> In my favorite comment ever, this is the comment on isNull and setNull
>> {code}
>>    /**
>>     * This is an unsupported method.
>>     * It never really worked. Don't use it!
>>     * @param isNull (but it will be ignored)
>>     */
>> {code}
>> Simply delightful. Let's get rid of it!
>> And let's @deprecate reference, which never really was used to begin with
> 
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