Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2009/2/24 Gian Mario Tagliaretti <gianmt gnome org>:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > > > Tomboy was "using" GnomePrint, the bindings provide the library, so
> > > > unless GnomePrint is not going to be shipped anymore there is no point
> > > > in talking about "porting".
> > > That's the whole point: we don't want to ship libgnomeprint* anymore :-)
> > Sure, is GnomePrint going to be shipped in 2.26? If the answer is "yes
> > we do" there is no point in discussing it :)
> > (and put it as a showstopper)
>
> Yes there is, if you include them, people with a 2.26 environment may
> end up writing new applications that use them too.

Can't you just raise a warning when importing one of the deprecated 
modules, so it still works for older applications but warn authors that 
it is obsolete?