Re: Obsolete classes

Eric Bezault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Colin Adams wrote:
> I just came upon an obsolete warning for DS_COMPARABLE_COMPARATOR.
> 
> I think these warnings are far past their sell-by date, and the old
> classes should be removed.

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

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Eric Bezault
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