First draft
https://github.com/eksperimental/elixir/blob/deprecations/lib/elixir/pages/Deprecations.md

PR is here
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/5808

Please everyone let me know what you think or how it could be improved,
thank you.

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:24:20 +0700
eksperimental <[email protected]> wrote:

> You are welcome José.
> I agree on all the points.
> I will work on a draft and submit it as Work-in-progress Pull Request.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:54:32 +0100
> José Valim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I agree such table is important, +1. Some clarifications:
> > 
> > 1. We should include when the version was deprecated (i.e. we started
> > emitting warnings) as well as when the replacement function has been
> > available. Most times, the replacement function is available at least two
> > releases before the deprecation. It is important to keep this perspective.
> > 
> > 2. We should not include anything pre 1.0 because that would make the table
> > unnecessarily large and it wouldn't be helpful for the huge majority of
> > developers.
> > 
> > By sticking to 1.0, hopefully the table is not hard to assemble, giving it
> > is a matter of reading the changelogs and searching for "deprecate" in the
> > code base.
> > 
> > Finally, I would suggest for this table to be listed in a page called
> > "Deprecations" (alongside the "Operators" page and others). We should
> > likely move our deprecation policy there:
> > https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/RELEASE.md#deprecation-policy
> > 
> > Thank you for looking into this!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > *José Valim*
> > www.plataformatec.com.br
> > Skype: jv.ptec
> > Founder and Director of R&D
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 3:05 AM, eksperimental <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >   
> > > I would also like to propose to introduce a new page in the project that
> > > lists all the deprecated
> > > functions, what was the version it was deprecated, and if they have been
> > > replaced/renamed by new function.
> > >
> > > It happed to me once that I was using a package that was written for
> > > elixir 0.9.x,
> > > this function was renamed in 1.0, and then deprecated or renamed again
> > > (can't remember)
> > > in a later minor version. So finding the current function was not as
> > > straight-forward as I would
> > > have wanted it.
> > >
> > > Ideally I would like it to include pre-1.0 elixir version.
> > > I can volunteer myself to start with a mock-up and eventually start
> > > filling up the table.
> > >
> > > Please let me know what you think
> > >
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