On Friday 08 April 2011 07:16:29 Matti Airas wrote:
> On 05.04.2011 21:38, ext Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
> >> How about allowing deprecation of simple API features (basically,
> >> changes in specific function signatures etc) in the minor releases?
> >> Then, when a feature is marked deprecated the deprecated feature could
> >> be removed in the next minor release after a suitable cool-down period.
> >> I'd propose a cool-down period of a minimum of one year between the
> >> deprecation and the feature removal to give application developers ample
> >> time to update the APIs in their applications.
> > 
> > I agree, we just need to document it somehow, probably on our wiki.
> 
> Should we have typesystem support for depracating features? This might
> make it easier to automatically document and track deprecation in the
> future? Or am I just unnecessarily complicating things?

A typesystem support would allow us to tag deprecated functions on 
documentation, IMO it's a good thing to have but we don't need it yet.
 
> ma.

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Hugo Parente Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

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