On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Generally speaking, we should only throw warnings or remove old interfaces that are actively broken (do not work correctly) or can no longer be sanely maintained -- removing a deprecated interface is a fairly extreme step and should never be done just to make things look cleaner.
There may be little or even *negative* benefit to going around and changing all the calling code to use the new interface. I've seen *lots* of regressions in commits that swap something to a new interface without taking into account how the interface actually changed, and they're harder to track down because the changes are often buried in generic code clean-up.
+1000.
Rob