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

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Please also see:

http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/deprecation/

For more details about the process.

Dan



> Thanks,
> H.
>
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