Re: [epsilon-dev] Proposal to remove deprecated methods

[Dimitris Kolovos <dimitris.kolovos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sina,

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 18:40, Sina Madani <sm1748@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Dimitris,
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> Thank you for your thoughts. This was my reasoning too: although most of the changes to Epsilon have been additions, enhancements  and bug fixes, it’s probably substantial enough to be part of a major release and so an ideal opportunity to clean up some of the legacy API. Though I’m not sure if a major release entails more administrative overhead.
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Looking at [1] it doesn't look like a major release is much more work
than a minor release. Let's have a chat about this when we meet
tomorrow.

> Speaking of which, what is the timescale for releases? Looking at the history it seems to be every 1-2 years and 1.5 was released in August 2018, though presumably there aren’t any hard constraints on the schedule.
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There's no strict timeline for releases indeed.

Cheers,
Dimitris

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#release

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> Thanks,
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> Sina
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> Re: [epsilon-dev] Proposal to remove deprecated methods
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> From: Dimitris Kolovos <dimitris.kolovos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:25:43 +0100
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> Hi Sina,
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> Removing deprecated methods typically requires a new major version
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> (i.e. 2.0). Having said this, with the amount of work that has gone
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> into Epsilon since 1.5.1 and given other changes in the API, what we
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> call 1.6 feels more like 2.0 anyway so perhaps we should bump up the
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> major version and think about making a 2.0 release.
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> Thanks,
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> Dimitris
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> On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 15:17, Sina Madani <sinadoom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
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> > I was wondering whether it would be a good time to remove deprecated methods? If so are there any methods (or classes) to be wary of in doing so? I presume most deprecations were in place before the release of 1.5, giving users one releaseâ notice before removal.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Sina
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