From: "Stefan Bodewig" <bodewig@apache.org>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Magesh Umasankar <umagesh@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > How about showing deprecated warnings only when ant
> > is run in -deprecated mode?
>
> This would make things even worse for us. Users that don't care what
> will be broken by an update, will never see this warning.
I was just proposing an alternative much like javac which *warns* user
that user has used deprecated stuff. If user is so concerned, user
will compile with -deprecation turned on. Similarly, when ant is launched,
if build.xml contains deprecated tasks, attributes, etc. we just show a
line saying build.xml contains deprecated stuff. Run with -deprecation to
get detailed deprecation warnings.
> Nobody is going to enable that switch.
How are you so sure? :-)
I, for one, have enabled -deprecation flag for javac numerous times to
make sure I am not using any deprecated stuff. It is just a discipline
that we must encourage, instead of having to *force* the user to read
deprecated messages again and again.
If you prefer, turn on -deprecated flag by default (like jikes) or turn it
off
(like javac)?
Magesh
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