Re: [gentoo-council] Question I had while writing my devmanual patch about eclasses

[Tiziano Müller]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2009, 19:01 -0400 schrieb Thomas Anderson:
> While writing the devmanual patch that I agreed to write for removal of
> eclasses I came across the very vague definition of "deprecating"
> eclasses before removal. Ulrich(last name ommitted to avoid stabbing ;-) )
> and we came up with the following for the process of deprecating an
> eclass:
>
> a. make sure nothing in the tree uses it any more
> b. announce deprecation on -dev
> c. put a warning in pkg_setup
> d. add a line containing exactly "# @DEAD" for vapier's man pages
>
> Please vote so we don't have to go over this in a meeting. I personally
> am fine with it, but my vote matters little.
According to the above you applied Common Sense (tm) which would have
been sufficient, but since you ask: yes, I think it looks ok.
We may want to create an additional deprecated.eclass where we implement
pkg_setup (and maybe pkg_pretend for eapi-3) to have a default "this is
deprecated" warning and die-statement.

Cheers,
Tiziano


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Tiziano Müller
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