[Bioc-devel] good time for the "deprecated -> defunct -> removal" shift

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi developers,

Just a reminder that now that the BioC release is behind us, we are
at the beginning of a new devel cycle, and this is a good time for
making the "deprecated -> defunct -> removal" shift in your package,
and for identifying features that are candidates for deprecation.

It's recommended to proceed in 3 steps (in this order):
   (1) remove the defunct stuff;
   (2) change status of deprecated stuff to defunct;
   (3) decide whether new features need to be deprecated and, if any,
       deprecate them ASAP.

See ?.Deprecated and ?.Defunct for how to deprecate/defunct functions.

Please let us know if you have any question or concerns about this.

Thanks,
H.

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Hervé Pagès

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