On Jun 1, 12:27 am, "Gary Furnish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Gary,

> A bunch of the stuff in misc.functional is junk... I've deleted a
> bunch of it in my symbolics rewrite without any issues.

You because you didn't have any problem there does not mean we can
just delete things willy-nilly. I would very strongly recommend that
we write down some deprecation procedure and make it mandatory that
such procedures are followed. If you remove some function now and a
months from now somebodies code breaks because we removed something
now and the person did either skip a couple upgrades or did not read
all the details in the release notes *we developers* look like idiots
for breaking the code. Now if it printed warnings per default for the
next six months and then was removed I am 100% fine with that.

And I am not talking about some "what if situation", but

"#3253 f.jacob() used to work to compute jacobian ideal. Now it
doesn't"

illustrates the problem. The jacob() function was renamed in 2.10.3 to
gradient(), but in 3.0.2 somebody noticed that his old code was broken
all the sudden.

<SNIP>

Cheers,

Michael
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