Re: Recommended way to handle deprecation?

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Andreas Rottmann said:
> I wonder what the recommended way to handle deprecated API: to wrap or
> not to wrap, that's the question here :). How do other bindings handle
> this and is there a "recommended way"?

gtk2-perl's Glib and Gtk2 modules explicitly do not bind things that were
deprecated as of 2.0.0 (although some made it in by accident early on). 
Things that were deprecated during the 2.x series cannot be removed or the
backward compatibility of the 2.x series would be lost, so thing deprecated
*during* the 2.x series are left alone.

For example, GtkCList was deprecated in 2.0.0, so it is not bound[1];
GtkOptionMenu was deprecated in 2.4.0, so we didn't do anything about that.



[1] There's a separate, unofficial module that binds the deprecated widgets to
ease porting from Gtk-Perl (gtk+ 1.x) to Gtk2-Perl (gtk+ 2.x).

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