From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Magesh Umasankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about showing deprecated warnings only when ant > > is run in -deprecated mode? > > This would make things even worse for us. Users that don't care what > will be broken by an update, will never see this warning.
I was just proposing an alternative much like javac which *warns* user that user has used deprecated stuff. If user is so concerned, user will compile with -deprecation turned on. Similarly, when ant is launched, if build.xml contains deprecated tasks, attributes, etc. we just show a line saying build.xml contains deprecated stuff. Run with -deprecation to get detailed deprecation warnings. > Nobody is going to enable that switch. How are you so sure? :-) I, for one, have enabled -deprecation flag for javac numerous times to make sure I am not using any deprecated stuff. It is just a discipline that we must encourage, instead of having to *force* the user to read deprecated messages again and again. If you prefer, turn on -deprecated flag by default (like jikes) or turn it off (like javac)? Magesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
