Re: Why is GCompletion deprecated

[Christian Dywan <christian lanedo com>]

Am Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:59:47 +0100
schrieb Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>:

> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 18:43 +0200, Christian Dywan wrote:
>  
> > > and, again, there is this false impression that deprecation is
> > > akin to removal.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > you can either #undef G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED for the files that use
> > > these particular data structures, or copy gcompletion.[ch] in your
> > > project; since these files haven't been really changed in a
> > > while, the maintenance burden for projects is not heavy.
> > 
> > One has to wonder where this "false impression" is coming from. Is
> > it by any chance because there are loads of bugs and wiki pages
> > about using G_DISABLE_FOOBAR and not relying on deprecated code?
> 
> it's a maintainer's choice to make your application rely on deprecated
> code; all the bugs and wiki pages in the world are there in an
> informational capacity only: I cannot get on your repository and just
> rip code out of your application.

That is irrelevant. You expressed surprise that developers think they
are highly encouraged to avoid deprecated code and do their best to
keep building without it.

-- 
ciao,
    Christian