On May 25, 3:32 am, "Thor (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Herb, > > There is no reason to rewrite existing v2 applications, nor is any > existing investment in v2 wasted. The deprecation of v2 is simply our > way of being open and honest with developers such as yourself about > our plans for v2. It serves as notice that there will be no new > features. However we are by no means pulling the rug out from under > v2. It would suicidal for us to do so given the level of adoption it > has, notwithstanding the fact that it would be a clear breach of our > own deprecation policy. > > v2 will continue to be maintained and supported. We will continue to > fix bugs in v2, and support the same set of browsers. If anything v2 > will become more mature and stable than at any time in it's history as > the remaining bugs get addressed and no new features arrive to > destabilise it. The deprecation policy commits us to maintaining v2 > for at least 3 years, and that's just the minimum rather than a hard > stop. > > We understand that the word 'deprecation' has negative connotations, > but it's really just the warning you are looking for, with a 3 year > notice period. It's not a hard switchover, just a change of relative > priority. We could have chosen not to deprecate v2, but given that > there are no new features on the v2 roadmap we felt that it would have > been disingenuous not to do so. > > Hope that helps to clarify and assuage any fears,
It does help on a number of fronts. I suspect it's the use of the word "deprecated" that makes me - and probably others - very nervous. I understand that there are a great many sites built on v2, and it would be suicidal from a PR point of view to eliminate it. However, also mentioned in the deprecation policy in section 4.4 are a number of reasons why Google could "cease providing all or any part of the Deprecated Version of the Service immediately without any notice", which kinda got our attention. I'll try to ignore it for now, and hope we stop making v2 Javascript API dependent applications before the plug is pulled. Thanks for helping to make at least one developer feel a little more secure, Herb. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
