The point of marking API's as deprecated is to indicate that they should not be used, so by definition it's a suggestion to upgrade.
But importantly, it's a suggestion since it will co-exist with the new API. I suppose you could create a maintenance branch where bugfixes will go, but I see it as quite unlikely that serious efforts would be expended on these branches (save for "absolutely critical" bugfixes) given that a new API has been introduced. Alternatively, bugfixes to deprecated APIs could be applied as long the the deprecated API exists in the codebase. But at one point, I think the deprecated API is meant to tbe removed. Maybe this is the point where a maintenance branch could be created? On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Egon Willighagen <egon.willigha...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi.g...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:21 AM, John M <john.wilkinson...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > As to Egons concern regarding maintenance burden - I think it's a safe to > > state that deprecated API's will not be maintained. > > That does not sound consistent... one one hand you want to keep the > API stable, so that people do not have to migrate (immediately), but > at the same time say they must upgrade because the code is no longer > maintained... that does not make sense to me... > > Egon > > PS. sending an email to cdk-user@ about the code migration things I > wrote over the past few years in the wiki: > https://github.com/cdk/cdk/wiki/Migration > > -- > E.L. Willighagen > Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT > Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) > Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ > LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw > Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ > PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers > ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 > ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/EgonWillighagen > -- Rajarshi Guha | http://blog.rguha.net NIH Center for Advancing Translational Science
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