[Product-Developers] Providing backward compatibility for a zope component

Martijn Pieters mj at zopatista.com
Tue May 10 16:56:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:39, Marcos Romero
<marcos.romero at inter-cultura.com> wrote:
> That's my problem: I don't know if it is important to provide that
> compatibility because I don't know if anyone is using it or, in case
> they are, if they are using those methods directly.
>
> Another option would be to write upgrade notes to tell how to use
> those methods from now on. Or keep in the the methods in the browser
> view with a deprecation warning.

If it's easy, then just do it. It's not as if the interface is
complex. If it's complex, don't support it and call it version 2.0!

Don't do deprecation warnings, they tend to get ignored anyway.

-- 
Martijn Pieters


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