On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Dani Church <dchu...@cheri.shyou.org> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >> Adding the SVN_MAYBE_POISON(svn_wc_some_function) can be done >> mechanically (by a script that reads the @deprecated comments and >> transforms the header files accordingly) --- instead of editing all >> headers now, we could provide a knob for people to run this script >> during 'make install'. > > I toyed around with that kind of idea, but, having just done a lot of > partially-automated text processing on these files, I know just how hard it > is to get it right-- I wouldn't want to leave that to an automated script. > Also, I'm not a big fan of having to mangle the header files before they're > usable-- I'd rather be able to point my GCC include path straight at my > working copy.
We already have a header-file parser: doxygen. It shouldn't be too much trouble[1] to get the xml-ified doxygen output for a given header and search for deprecated APIs based upon that. Whether or not we *should* do that is another question, but I'm just pointing out that it's technically feasible. -Hyrum [1] Famous last words
