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[Gabriel Hurley <Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I'd recommend using Python's built-in warnings module and the standard DeprecationWarning and PendingDeprecation warning classes:

http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html#warning-categories

For an example of this in action (outside OpenStack) check out Django's usage here:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.4.x/django/core/management/sql.py#L99

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-
> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kevin L. Mitchell
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:19 PM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [glance] legacy client removal and python-
> glanceclient
> 
> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:37 +0000, Gabriel Hurley wrote:
> > As a rule of thumb, we need to start doing proper deprecation on all
> > public interfaces, whether that's a CLI, client method signatures,
> > APIs, etc. It's a little late for this on the old vs. new glance
> > client/CLI (unless Brian feels the work can be reasonably done to make
> > them compatible) but it's something we need to be really mindful of
> > going forward.
> 
> As an example of how it can be done properly, check out
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10577/ (at least, I believe I did it correctly
> ;)
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
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