Re: [Bioc-devel] Deprecating a class

2017-06-27 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Carlos, Deprecating the constructors should be enough if you don't expect that your users have serialized instances of the class around (i.e. objects that they saved to disk with save() or saveRDS()). It's actually impossible to know whether your users have done this or not but they would typ

[Bioc-devel] Deprecating a class

2017-06-27 Thread Carlos Ruiz
Hi Bioc developers, A year ago, we introduced a class in my package MEAL to manage methylation data. After some Bioc releases, we realised that we don't really need this class and that it is better to reuse other Bioc classes to facilitate package usability. Is there any protocol to deprecate