Re: [hibernate-dev] Continue to add 5.2 deprecations for 6.0 work?

In my opinion deprecating something is useful only when we are able to provide an alternative, not sure about the best approach in case we do not have a current alternative. On 28 June 2017 at 08:55, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I would use the regular Java deprecation mechanism is just make sure > we write the plan in the Javadoc and the User Guide. > > On example is Query#setResultTransformer: > >> * @deprecated (since 5.2) >> * @todo develop a new approach to result transformers >> */ >> @Deprecated >> Query<R> setResultTransformer(ResultTransformer transformer); > If we didn't use deprecated here, and chose only @EndOfLife, > > people might complain even more that they didn't ackowledged that this > method is going to be changed in future. > > Vlad > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; > wrote: > >> Per subject I wanted to come to a consensus as to how exact we want to be >> in terms of continuing to add deprecations to 5.2 for ongoing 6.0 work. >> Considering that these deprecations are meant to be a guide for users to >> migrate to 6.0 I think we should try to be as complete as possible in > this >> effort, but wanted to hear other's views. >> >> An alternative is the @EndOfLife annotation I have recently added to 6.0. >> We could back port this annotation and use that instead; the reason being >> that people complain when we deprecate something without being able to >> specify its "replacement". This would be an option to do both. The >> drawback is that this annotation obviously has no tie-in with javac - > users >> would have to go out of their way to find these. >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev