[OpenLayers-Dev] OL build: Why put in the code compressed code deprecated?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Sunday, September 25, 2011, Xavier Mamano (jorix) <
xavier.mamano at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In OL exists code labeled as *Deprecated* but it is not possible to
> exclude deprecated code in compressed code, examples: "Util.js",
> "BaseTypes/Class.js", "BaseTypes/Element.js" ...
>
> If these source files are split into two, for example "Util.js" and
> "Util-deprecate.js" (with "@requires OpenLayers/Util.js"), so could easily
> create configuration files to exclude deprecated code.

Hi

I think that's an interesting idea.

People who do use deprecated code in their apps would need to include
*-deprecate.js files in their builds but I guess this is something we can
document in the release notes.

For classes I guess we would have lines like
"MyClass.prototype.myDeprecatedFunction = function() { ... };" in the
-deprecate.js files.

I'd see this as a smooth transition towards actually removing deprecated
code, both for users and us developers.

What do others think about it?


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