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[Victor <victoreduardm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Chris, it is possible.

Vala allows adding annotations to symbols. You only need to add the 
following annotation at the top of the symbol you want to deprecate. 

[Deprecated (replacement = "ReplacementClass", since = "0.3")]
class MyDeprecatedClass { ... }

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Chris Timberlake <game64@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Is there a way to add compile time warnings to it?
>
> In the event developers are using it and are unknowing? I'm not 
> knowledgeable about adding compile time warnings in Vala but it might 
> be worth it.
>
> On Apr 1, 2013 11:23 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" 
> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I suggest deprecating it instead of removing it right away.
> >
> >
> > 2013/4/1 David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > I can only remove it when Noise stops using it.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Victor <victoreduardm@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > I'm sure Mario has used it in many of his projects.
> > > >
> > > > In my humble opinion, that class it not a big deal. It's only a 
> > > > wrapper/facade around one method from GTK+.
> > > >
> > > > Would you mind removing the StatusBar class too? It is hacky, ugly 
> > > > and incomplete and only Noise is using it.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, David Gomes 
> > > > <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hello there,
> > > > >
> > > > > There's a class/object/file in Granite called "IconFactory.vala", 
> > > > > you can check it out here - 
> > > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-pantheon/granite/granite/view/head:/lib/Services/IconFactory.vala.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is anybody using it and definitely dependent on it?
> > > > >
> > > > > We're considering removing it and I need to know if it's 
> > > > > necessary.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > David "Munchor" Gomes
> > >
> > >
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