On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Juyung Seo <seojuyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Gustavo Lima Chaves >> <gl...@profusion.mobi> wrote: >>> >>> * Enlightenment SVN <no-re...@enlightenment.org> [2012-05-28 13:35:35 >>> -0700]: >>> >>> > Log: >>> > [elm] Warn about deprecation of some icon calls >>> > The ones just wrapping their image counterparts should die eventually. >>> > The signal callbacks on icons will die, too, eventually. >>> >>> Dear people, >>> >>> as you can see, I have marked some icon calls as deprecated, since now >>> it shares a common base with image. Various of its API calls just pass >>> down the job to the image counterpart, so let's warn users as early as >>> possible of a future dropping of the icon versions of those. >> >> IMO we should be louder and add EINA_DEPRECATED to these things, also >> marking them in ChangeLog/NEWS for future removal. Maybe we deprecate >> now (as in EINA_DEPRECATED) and remove in 2.0 or 3.0? > > EINA_DEPRECATED makes just warning but I think this is also a kind of API > break. > Maybe we create release branch for 2.0 and add EINA_DEPRECATED? > > What is preferred work flow for EFL? We have elm 1.0 branch and dev > branch(trunk) now. > Dev branch will be brached again as elm 1.1 or 1.7 sometime later? > How can we start working on elm 2.0 and break API?
I sincerely dislike us going on 2.0 branch now. There is still a lot of things to do (ie: eobj) before it make sense to take that path. We are years away from a 2.0. As for deprecating call, I am fine as long as we maintain them for the life of the 1.x series. In my opinion it would make migration from 1.x to 2.x easier in the futur. The goal of deprecating API is to make application developper life easier by providing them with a more powerfull/simpler solution to do the same task. In the mean time we should not burden them by breaking their apps faster than they can write them. So to make it short, I am fine with marking call deprecated as long as we maintain them for a few years. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
