Re: First deprecate APIs and then remove them in the next major version

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 08:02:56PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-12-14 at 19:56 +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > With "soft API breaks" (i.e. just removing an API that was deprecated
> > in
> > a previous major version), I think this would improve a lot the
> > situation and would avoid to repeat the same problem as GTK+ 2 -> 3.
>
> It already exists. Look at the "DISABLE_DEPRECATED" macros in the
> current version of libraries, and which usually get removed in the +1
> version.

Yes, it's a nice feature, but it doesn't solve the problem that there
are a lot of direct API breaks during GTK+ 3.9x development.

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Sébastien