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

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Alex,

Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 10.40:00 schrieb Alexander Bruy:
> 
> 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.

Where exactly is it marked as deprecated? At least not in the API docs [1]. 
And the current PyQGIS cookbook shows it as an example [2].
I'm only asking for a more user friendly way than having to read the C++ 
source code first.

Pirmin

[1] 
http://qgis.org/api/1.8/classQgsMapLayerRegistry.html#a06a1339cd757608a61e3899a27f39e8a
[2] http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/loadlayer.html#map-layer-registry

> 
> 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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