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

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

I am not sure but I think what Pirmin meant here was that there was no
warning _message_.
We all know that a lot of functions have been declared deprecated since a
very long time. But without knowing or getting a warning message that THIS
function is deprecated, I agree with Pirmin that noone can see the
deprecation until reading the source or .. until it is cleaned out.
Nevertheless it is good to clean the code (otherwise we would collect
deprecated functions forever)..
So just as a reminder here to spit out warning messages for deprecated
functions next time ..
Whenever this will be .. I hope not too soon ;)

kind regards
Werner


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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