Re: [seam-dev] deprecations on Identity
On Jun 09, 2008, at 09:31 , Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> I'm totally with you on steering the new developers. I guess
we could
> be like Sun and never remove a deprecated method. Many IDEs just take
> the deprecated hint too far and make it look near like a compilation
> error. Perhaps what we really want is just to encourage developers to
> use credentials, but not force their hand. We can yell at them in the
> documentation ;)
@Deprecation is the most prominent way of yelling about such changes.
Noone reads docs anywhere.
Yes, and for that reason never use @Deprecated without hints as to
what to do about it. Which is the actual problem with the current
changes to Identity.