[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/4] Sys::Guestfs::Lib: deprecate inspection functions

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:29:14PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 28/10/10 12:36, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>From b3394208522cd993788aa642e0082e6e5296fe02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Richard W.M. Jones<rjones at redhat.com>
> >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:47:45 +0100
> >Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Sys::Guestfs::Lib: deprecate inspection functions (RHBZ#642930).
> >
> >Deprecate the guest inspection functions in this module, remove
> >documentation, and point users at the core API functions instead.
> >
> >However we will keep the code here since it is used by virt-v2v
> >and virt-inspector.
> >---
> >  perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm |  419 +++----------------------------------------
> >  1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 390 deletions(-)
> 
> I'm not convinced about this. By all means mark the functions as
> deprecated, but I wouldn't remove the documentation until they're
> actually removed.

Trouble is, if we leave the documentation there people might use it ...

Rich.

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