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. -- Hugo Parente Lima INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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