[Qgis-developer] OpenLayers plugin release and Python API breaks

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi,

please note that most of this methods were marked as deprecated for
a long time. Some of them are deprecated since QGIS 1.6 or even
earlier.

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:57:26 +0100
Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I found the time for an OpenLayers plugin release with merged pull requests 
> for Stamen map support and fixes for Python API breaks in master branch (See 
> https://twitter.com/PirminKalberer/status/294226472707715072 for credits).
> The second point was quite annoying for many users and myself. It is a really 
> bad practice to break the API without deprecation messages when calling these 
> methods. There should be enough time (at least one minor version) for 
> developers for updating their plugins. In this case it would have been easy to 
> keep the old API and add a deprecation message similar to 
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/391367-deprecated/ 
> 
> Regards
> Pirmin
> 
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> Pirmin Kalberer
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Alexander Bruy