[Bf-committers] Can we please stop breaking APIs?

[Knapp]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> @Matt, read you're mail and agree with you're suggestions on
>>> deprecation, but for this to work we need some better way to notify of
>>> deprecated api usage.
>>> it worries me a bit that mac and win users (even script devs) don't
>>> use the console so much anymore, of course they should not have to...
>>> but for the moment deprecation warnings are just prints, so its
>>> something we need to address.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. Is there any way that a deprecation warning could be hooked up to
>> blender's reports system, to give a little warning in the reports area of
>> the header? I can't remember precisely right now but doesn't it already
>> report on python errors there?
>>
>>
>> Matt
>
> It reports on errors but not warnings, it may be possible to get it to
> catch warnings too, will need to look into that.
>
> Committed a deprecation checker which prints deprecations & their age in days.
>
> `make test_deprecated` - runs the test, output:
>
> ---snip
>
> python3 source/tests/check_deprecated.py
> scanning in '/dsk/data/src/blender/blender' for '*DEPRECATED* YYYY/MM/DD info'
>    scanned 2837 files
>
> All deprecations...
>   datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 17, 0, 0), days-old(02),
> /dsk/data/src/blender/blender/source/blender/python/generic/bgl.c:117
> - bgl.Buffer.list
>
> ---snip
>
> done!

LOL, beat me to it. It was to be first ever Dev contribution. Oh well.
The new message warning popped up as I was writing. :-)



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