In my opinion deprecating something is useful only when we are able to provide an alternative, not sure about the best approach in case we do not have a current alternative.
On 28 June 2017 at 08:55, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would use the regular Java deprecation mechanism is just make sure > we write the plan in the Javadoc and the User Guide. > > On example is Query#setResultTransformer: > > > > > * @deprecated (since 5.2) > > * @todo develop a new approach to result transformers > > */ > > @Deprecated > > Query<R> setResultTransformer(ResultTransformer transformer); > > If we didn't use deprecated here, and chose only @EndOfLife, > > people might complain even more that they didn't ackowledged that this > method is going to be changed in future. > > Vlad > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> > wrote: > > > Per subject I wanted to come to a consensus as to how exact we want to be > > in terms of continuing to add deprecations to 5.2 for ongoing 6.0 work. > > Considering that these deprecations are meant to be a guide for users to > > migrate to 6.0 I think we should try to be as complete as possible in > this > > effort, but wanted to hear other's views. > > > > An alternative is the @EndOfLife annotation I have recently added to 6.0. > > We could back port this annotation and use that instead; the reason being > > that people complain when we deprecate something without being able to > > specify its "replacement". This would be an option to do both. The > > drawback is that this annotation obviously has no tie-in with javac - > users > > would have to go out of their way to find these. > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
