Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> writes: > On 3/15/20 3:46 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Unlike regular feature flags, the new special feature flag >> "deprecated" is recognized by the QAPI generator. For now, it's only >> permitted with commands, events, and struct members. It will be put >> to use shortly. > > What about using a '@DeprecatedSince' tag? > Ah, that would apply to the whole structure and not a particular member... > > I am wondering because sometimes we deprecate something for 2 releases > but then once the deadline passed we forgot to remove it. Having the > release version deadline along with deprecation would help automating > removal checks. > Maybe we can use a tag with release version, such 'deprecated_since:5.0'?
Intended consumer for "since <version>" information? So far, it's been just developers. Searching the QAPI schema for deprecated stuff past its grace period hasn't been the problem; remembering to search for it has been.
