On 10 June 2012 17:29, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The deprecation warning should include the Sage version where it was
> deprecated, as in
>
> deprecation('foobar is deprecated', 'Sage Version 4.8')
>Sounds good. I looked for something about deprecation warnings in the developers' guide but found nothing. Where is it? John > > > On Sunday, June 10, 2012 5:23:36 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: >> >> 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 -- 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
