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

[Vlad Mihalcea]

The concept is good and we should apply it. Instead of @EndOfLife we could
use @Deprecating
as it suggests a continuing action has not finished yet, but the eventual
outcome is obvious.

Makes sense?

Vlad

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Vald, while I personally completely agree with you that @Deprecated is the
> proper approach (imo), some users do not.  @EndOfLife offers a *possible*
> alternative.  Yes using @EndOfLife does not warn users of using
> deprecated features unless they do something "extra" as I mentioned in my
> original email.
>
> The question is whether @EndOfLife is an appropriate "middle ground"
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:56 AM andrea boriero <andrea at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 at gmail.com> 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 at hibernate.org>
>>> 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.
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