Re: Stock Items Deprecation

[Matthew Brush <mbrush codebrainz ca>]

On 13-07-17 03:21 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> hi;
>
> On 17 July 2013 11:01, Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 17 juillet 2013 à 11:47 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 09:41 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > > > [...]
>
> > Should I just stop using gtk+ for
> > development? I have not so much available time and rewriting code using
> > deprecated classes should not use it all. I clearly prefer spend time on
> > new code, or fixing bugs.
>
> you can still use deprecated classes until we break GTK for 4.0.
> deprecation does not mean removal, it just means that the deprecated
> API should not ("should not", not "must not") be used in newly written
> code.

To be fair, it may not mean "immediate removal" but it does mean "slated 
for removal", which to a developer effectively means "you need to 
re-write all your code using it (sooner or later)", which is I think 
pretty much what Jean was griping about.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush