Re: [RFC] Mark deprecated functions with SVN_DEPRECATED / __attribute__((deprecated))

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 13:14 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
wrote:
> 2008-08-18 23:25:34 Greg Stein napisał(a):
> > Well, by definition, we don't need the developer to upgrade their
> > software. They should be able to freely use the old API with no
> > consequences. Thus, there is no rational reason for us to spam them.
>
> Such messages shouldn't be treated as spam. They would be seen mostly only
> by developers of software which uses Subversion libraries. People who don't
> like warnings can use the '-w' compiler option.

No. Greg is right. If a developer upgrades their version of Subversion,
and then sees lots of new warnings that they can't turn off
independently of other warnings, that would be spam.

> > And yes, we can keep docstrings in the deprecated header so that
> > people can figure out how to upgrade their calls.
>
> Please don't move declarations of all deprecated functions to one header.
> IMHO it would only create a disorder.

Yes, +1. I hope greg meant to create a set of deprecated headers, one
corresponding to each normal header. Something like:

svn_wc.h:
[[[
...
#if SVN_WITH_DEPRECATED
#include svn_wc_deprecated.h
#endif
...
]]]

- Julian

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Received on 2008-08-19 14:10:42 CEST