Deprecation schedule

[Stewart Gordon]

On 27/11/2010 17:04, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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> It seems like that developers using Java are very afraid of removing
> anything. If I recall correctly the SWT library contains several
> classes/interfaces with a 2 appended to the end of the name just because
> they don't want to remove the old class/interface.

Adding methods to an existing interface creates immediate backward 
incompatibility, no wait for the interface to be removed.  It's like 
changing the parameter list of a function.

Stewart.