Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:45:31 -0800

On 02/08/2018 12:45 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:

Hi Tim

Isn't that what "deprecated" means: supported but discouraged?

I thought it also indicates that support will go away (which would make
maintaining applications that need to be built against newer as well
as older versions of epics a pain).

A side-effect are many compiler warnings that could obscure more
serious issues.

Dirk

On 07.02.2018 00:43, Till Straumann wrote:

I'm using some (old) code with 3.15.5 and learned that
post_event() had been deprecated in favour of postEvent().

While I have no real problems with the new flavour which
in some cases might be really nice - I do question the
decision to deprecate post_event() (rather than, let's say
discourage its use for new applications but continue to
support it).

1.) There are probably many existing applications out there
     using post_event(). People have better things to do than
     migrating to the new version.
2.) The backwards-compatibility solution currently in place
     is cheap.
3.) People might have to use code with both, 3.15+ as well
     as older versions. It is a pain to have to maintain
     #ifdefs for this.

My two cents...

Best
- Till

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System