Methods with hidden deprecation

Hi everyone,

recently I stumbled upon a method with a method comment stating that the
method was actually deprecated, while the method was not marked as such
in any way. Based on that I looked further into that and found a few
other instances. Below is a list of the candidates for deprecation. My
suggestion would be to mark them as deprecated and put them into the
current deprecation package.

As some of these have been around for quite a while without being
denoted as deprecated, someone might rely on them heavily, so: Does
anyone feel strongly about any of these in either way (reinstatiate,
deprecate for sure)? (I have given the number of senders of the selector
in the Trunk image in braces after the selector)

Bests
Patrick


# Rather obvious candidates

- Collection:
  - #copyLast: (1)
  - #copyWithoutFirst (9)

- NewParagraph
  - #lineIndexForCharacter: (0)

- Morph
  - #fullCopy (0)

- PostscriptCanvas
  - #text:at:font:color:justified:parwidth: (0)

- Object
  - #backwardCompatibilityOnly: (0) "welp :)"

- Canvas
  - #imageWithOpaqueWhite:at: (0)
  - #image:at: (0)
  - #image:at:rule (0)

- FancyMailComposition
  - #breakLinesInMessage (0)

- Preferences class
  - #parameterAt:default: (0)

- SMPackage
  - maintainer (0)

- SocketStream
  - #receiveDataIfAvailable (0)

- SugarLauncher
  - #welcomeProjectName (0)

- TransformMorph
  - #localVisibleSubmorphBounds




# Somewhat disputable candidates

- MIMEDocument
  - #type (?)

- UIManager
  - #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- MVUIManager
  - #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- MorphicUIManager
  - #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- SMPackage
  - #modulePath:moduleVersion:moduleTag:versionComment: (1)

Some do have replacements, such as #copyLast:, others seem to be private interfaces that are not used by the current implementation anymore, e.g. #breakLinesInMessage and would be deleted without any replacement some day.

Bests,
Patrick
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From: Squeak-dev <[hidden email]> on behalf of Taeumel, Marcel
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:10:16 PM
To: squeak-dev
Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Methods with hidden deprecation

Hi Patrick,

those suggestions look reasonable. Are there simple replacements for each one?

Best,
Marcel

Am 13.10.2020 17:25:02 schrieb [hidden email] <[hidden email]>:

Hi everyone,

recently I stumbled upon a method with a method comment stating that the
method was actually deprecated, while the method was not marked as such
in any way. Based on that I looked further into that and found a few
other instances. Below is a list of the candidates for deprecation. My
suggestion would be to mark them as deprecated and put them into the
current deprecation package.

As some of these have been around for quite a while without being
denoted as deprecated, someone might rely on them heavily, so: Does
anyone feel strongly about any of these in either way (reinstatiate,
deprecate for sure)? (I have given the number of senders of the selector
in the Trunk image in braces after the selector)

Bests
Patrick


# Rather obvious candidates

- Collection:
- #copyLast: (1)
- #copyWithoutFirst (9)

- NewParagraph
- #lineIndexForCharacter: (0)

- Morph
- #fullCopy (0)

- PostscriptCanvas
- #text:at:font:color:justified:parwidth: (0)

- Object
- #backwardCompatibilityOnly: (0) "welp :)"

- Canvas
- #imageWithOpaqueWhite:at: (0)
- #image:at: (0)
- #image:at:rule (0)

- FancyMailComposition
- #breakLinesInMessage (0)

- Preferences class
- #parameterAt:default: (0)

- SMPackage
- maintainer (0)

- SocketStream
- #receiveDataIfAvailable (0)

- SugarLauncher
- #welcomeProjectName (0)

- TransformMorph
- #localVisibleSubmorphBounds




# Somewhat disputable candidates

- MIMEDocument
- #type (?)

- UIManager
- #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- MVUIManager
- #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- MorphicUIManager
- #openPluggableFileList:label:in: (1 deprecated)

- SMPackage
- #modulePath:moduleVersion:moduleTag:versionComment: (1)