[parted-devel] Deprecation method

[Otavio Salvador]

Anant Narayanan <anant at kix.in> writes:

>> It then will break all #include of headers since we'll need to change
>> from
>> 
>> #include <parted/parted.h>
>> 
>> to 
>> 
>> #include <parted2.0/parted.h>
>> 
>> and others too, of course.
>
> Ah yes, I see the practical difficulties now. So I guess the best way to
> go about this is to include comprehensive information about how Parted
> 2.0 will differ from earlier versions. Since we are also planning for an
> API change; this might not hurt developers much.

Yes ... that's why I think we should just remove the useless or
replaced methods and add it in a documentation to instruct the
developer how to upgrade his/her code.

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