Hi Chris! Chris McDonough wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:09 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
No matter what period we decide on it will always be too short for some and too long for others. With the current setup the deprecation period is a year, which seems like a decent middle ground.
A year suits me fine if it were the *actual* deprecation period, rather than the six-month deprecation cycle as is the case with zLOG and the eight-month deprecation cycle as is the case with 'methods'.
As the person who added the deprecation warning for 'methods': If you calculate the deprecation cycle from the day the warning was added I agree it is too short. Reading the sources I had the impression that the fact there was no warning for the deprecated feature was a bug and I did consider my change a bugfix. Without warning it was already deprecated for many years. I'm fine with extending the deprecation period by one more release cycle. Cheers, Yuppie