We have a rule about giving a deprecation output warning when the user interface of a function changes, and somewhere is written down how long that should remain in place. But is there an easy way to tell?
I tried using "hg blame" which tagged the lines I was looking at with the number 12039, but that does not refer to a relevant trac ticket. I put the number into the search box at http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main and miraculously the first hit led me to changeset 12039:b9efad4a61dd, dated Fri Apr 03 16:29:44 2009 -0700 (3 years ago) -- which is not the right one, looks like a reviewer's patch -- and the second hit seems to be the one I was looking for (same date). Perhaps it would make life simpler if whenever people write code introducing a new deprecation warning, there's a date? Though the time of writing the code and the date of the release can be years apart, so what then? In the case I was looking at (for ticket #13100) I think I am sage in removing the deprecation messages, and my patch there will do so. John -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
