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

[Werner Macho]

Hmm
That reminds me on the consolidation efforts ..
There is a lot of outdated, wrong information somewhere in the wiki -
(including my translation pages as well).
And I agree that all this things should be either deleted or made
unavailable to public..
But who is going to do it? I guess thats the question since more than a
year ..
I am also afraid of deleting things I don't know - might be important for
some people I always think..

Unfortunately I have no suggestion howto solve that problem without having
to rewrite everything from scratch.. deleting the old pages immediately
after rewriting..

kind regards
Werner



On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>wrote:

> 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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