[Thomas, I assume you don't mind moving this to the ML.]
On 04/02/2013 09:43 PM, Thomas Arnhold wrote:
Is it safe to remove items (which are marked as deprecated) from officecfg/registry/schema/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcs? I my case I mean: Slot (as fallout from Tor's commit a2bf98857), SendCrashMail and UseMailUI. I did have a short look on other items like SolarizationThreshold which are completely unused, too. Are they in that list for the case that such config item appears in an old config file and get's "handled"?
Generally, the .xcs data makes up part of LO's interface that external code can interact with, and as such should remain compatible.
In practice, there is old cruft where it is so unlikely that it is used by any external code that it should be safe to clean it up. (Similar to some UNOIDL stuff that we got rid of.) Also, the configmgr implementation should just ignore any .xcu data for which there is no matching .xcs data.
If in doubt, a good compromise might be to mark things as deprecated first, and only actually remove later. (And then, mark the relevant commits as "API CHANGE" so we can include them in our list of incompatible changes.)
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