Re: deprecation?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bill Haneman">

> I wholeheartedly agree with Murray here.  We should not
> 
> a) threaten to remove stable ABI;
> b) remove stable ABI, violating our stability guarantees;
> c) make ANY deprecation announcement to the external developer community 
> before suitable replacements have been made available and given soak time.

I'm fine with changing the wording, but we need to make the issue clear. We
have not deprecated any of this stuff yet, but we should NOT be encouraging
developers to use it. In answer to your points:

  a) So how do we make it clear that we do not recommend the use of these
  parts of the platform, given that we have had no confidence in them for
  quite some time now?

  b) We're not removing stable ABI, or threatening to do so. We're saying
  quite clearly that these libraries will be deprecated soon.

  c) We're not making a deprecation announcement.

- Jeff

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