On Tuesday 01 May 2012 17:08:55 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > >> Well, then they'll have to live with the warning. > >> > >> And this is the point of having the warning in the first place. Make > >> people aware of a coming change. > > > > As already mentioned in this thread, a mere hint about "may change > > somehow, in the next version" is of no real use. IMO "deprecated" means > > to the user that he should change his code *now*, in anticipation of the > > coming change. This obviously is not the case with the breaking change of > > the bookmark type, where *no* workaround exists in the current release. > > Instead of repeating the remark, suggesting a solution would be useful. > > Criticism is easy. Coming up with solutions obviously much less so. > As written before, in MSEgui I'll define a "bookmarkty" type, so MSEgui users have "bookmarkty" in order to avoid the warning. FPC and Lazarus probably can't do the same because of Delphi compatibility. Suggestion: remove "deprecated" from TBookmarkStr in fixes_2_6.
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