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| author | Adriaan Moors <adriaan@lightbend.com> | 2017-02-08 14:26:58 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-02-08 14:26:58 -0800 |
| commit | 14521835ff9aed7caab0ffce21120e30af0104fa (patch) | |
| tree | 9665fb5d3c7f82878d901513f822608bb093d725 /src/library | |
| parent | d6837aef059b6d2df1eac10284036ec1ed603a7b (diff) | |
| parent | 16e2d15e50215d06e2f36b44d26ebf0f542a8c00 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #5680 from SethTisue/deprecation-policy
update and improve description of deprecation policy
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/library/scala/deprecated.scala | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/library/scala/deprecated.scala b/src/library/scala/deprecated.scala index 60f0857550..a57745dbea 100644 --- a/src/library/scala/deprecated.scala +++ b/src/library/scala/deprecated.scala @@ -39,20 +39,18 @@ import scala.annotation.meta._ * '''`@deprecated` in the Scala language and its standard library'''<br/> * * A deprecated element of the Scala language or a definition in the Scala standard library will - * be preserved or at least another major version. + * be preserved at least for the current major version. * - * This means that an element deprecated since 2.12 will be preserved in 2.13, but will very likely - * not be part of 2.14. Sometimes a deprecated element might be kept for more than a major - * release to ease migration and upgrades from older Scala versions.<br/> - * Developers should not rely on this. + * This means that an element deprecated in some 2.12.x release will be preserved in + * all 2.12.x releases, but may be removed in 2.13. (A deprecated element + * might be kept longer to ease migration. Developers should not rely on this.) * * '''Special deprecation policy for Scala 2.12'''<br> - * The Scala team has decided to enact a special deprecation policy for the 2.12 release:<br/> + * The Scala team has decided to enact a special deprecation policy for Scala 2.12:<br/> * - * As an upgrade from Scala 2.11 to Scala 2.12 also requires upgrading from Java 6 to Java 8, - * no deprecated elements will be removed in this release to ease migration and upgrades - * from older Scala versions. This means that elements deprecated since 2.11 (or earlier) - * will not be removed in Scala 2.12. + * As an upgrade from 2.11 to 2.12 also requires upgrading from Java 6 to Java 8, + * deprecated elements will not normally be removed in this release, to ease migration + * and cross-building. * * @see The official documentation on [[http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.11.0/#binary-compatibility binary compatibility]]. * @param message the message to print during compilation if the definition is accessed |