Re: GNOME 2.26 Showstopper Review

Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2009/2/24 Gian Mario Tagliaretti <[email protected]>:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Tomboy was "using" GnomePrint, the bindings provide the library, so
>>>> unless GnomePrint is not going to be shipped anymore there is no point
>>>> in talking about "porting".
>>> That's the whole point: we don't want to ship libgnomeprint* anymore :-)
>> Sure, is GnomePrint going to be shipped in 2.26? If the answer is "yes
>> we do" there is no point in discussing it :)
>> (and put it as a showstopper)
> 
> Yes there is, if you include them, people with a 2.26 environment may
> end up writing new applications that use them too.

Can't you just raise a warning when importing one of the deprecated 
modules, so it still works for older applications but warn authors that 
it is obsolete?