Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Obsolete classes

[Lothar S. <ll...@we...>]

Hello Berend,

Friday, May 23, 2008, 11:46:42 AM, you wrote:

>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:

BdB>     Eric> In fact, I always wondered how long should a class or feature
BdB>     Eric> be marked as obsolete before being able to remove it. Should
BdB>     Eric> it be after some number of releases (2, 5, 10, ...?)? Should
BdB>     Eric> it be after some number of years (2, 5, 10, ...?)? Never? A
BdB>     Eric> combination of these?

BdB> Difficult question. 5 years perhaps?

Well there has to be at least a good stable release in between.
So slowly migration is possible.

I got fucked by SmartEiffel more then once because they had no
migration path just from now to an unstable broken CVS head version.

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 Lothar                            mailto:ll...@we...