I guess CORMAS project could benefit on that. We have tons of methods we don’t know if they are still used, some are deprecated or not. A real mess 😊
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Apr 2021, at 20:50, Oleksandr Zaitsev <olk.zayt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I need your help to recommend some projects that I can use in my study of > transforming deprecations. > > As many of you know, Pharo supports a very powerful concept of "transforming" > deprecations. You can deprecate a method, providing a transformation rule. > Then when a client application calls the deprecated method, the call-site > will be automatically rewritten to use the new API. Here is an example of a > transforming deprecation: > > Collection >> includesAllOf: values > self > deprecated: ‘Use #includesAll: instead’ > transformWith: ‘`@rec includesAllOf: `@arg’ -> > ‘`@rec includesAll: `@arg’. > > ^ self includesAll: values > > You can read more about transforming deprecations in my blog post: > https://blog.oleks.fr/deprewriter > > I am working on a tool that can analyse the commit history of a project and > recommend deprecations and transformation rules that can be inserted before > the release. It works like this: > > 1. Collect all commits between two releases of a project > 2. Mine those commits to identify method call replacements (deletions and > additions) that happen frequently > 3. Infer the mapping between the methods of the old and new API > 4. Recommend deprecations and generate transformation rules > > I have validated my approach on Pharo, Moose, Pillar, Famix, and DataFrame > projects. > > Now I am looking for other projects that could benefit from recommended > deprecations and could be used in my study. > > Required: > - open source project with accessible commit history (e.g. public git > repository) > - written in Pharo (although if you know projects in other languages that > could be interesting for my study, please let me know about them as well) > > Prefered: > - ongoing development > - multiple releases > - has users (other projects that depend on it) > > If you have some projects in mind, please let me know about them! > > And if you are interested in this study and want to learn more, don't > hesitate to contact me by email. > > Oleksandr > >
