On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 21:47 +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I would like to suggest that deprecated functions be additionally marked with
> > __attribute__((deprecated)) [1]. I suggest to directly use SVN_DEPRECATED
> > which can be defined in a header (e.g. svn_types.h) by:
> > #define SVN_DEPRECATED __attribute__((deprecated))
>
> We are committed to supporting old interfaces for the lifetime of 1.x
> and they should continue to work as well as they ever did. Newer
> interfaces may be better but we should not force users to upgrade, and
> we should certainly not make upgrading the only way to avoid warnings.
>
> I'd suggest something like:
>
> #ifdef SVN_DEPRECATED_WARNING
> #define SVN_DEPRECATED compiler magic
> #else
> #define SVN_DEPRECATED
> #endif
>
> We can arrange for our build to define SVN_DEPRECATED_WARNING and
> everyone else can choose for themselves.
+1.
- Julian
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Received on 2008-08-18 22:55:34 CEST