[TYPO3-core] RFC #12391: Remove deprecated methods in t3lib_htmlmail

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:

>>>> BTW, I was wondering that you wrote "will be removed in 4.4". Wasn't
>>>> that there decision to remove
>>>> stuff only after 2 versions from "now"? Or does this apply only for
>>>> new deprecations (new in 4.3)?
>>>>
>>> this is very conservative compared to your t3lib patch :)
>>>
>>> Yes, the policy is mark and remove 2 versions later, means marked in
>>> 4.3, removed in 4.5.
>>>
>>> But Noone really looks at, there is stuff already in deprecated since 3.x
>> What I did is to search for deprecated methods. Deprecated explicitly in
>> 4.3 without logging => add logging and add info that it will be
>> deprecated in 4.5, deprecated in 3.8, 4.0 or 4.1, it's enough time since
>> it is deprecated and I added logging + info that it will be removed in
>> 4.4. That's arbitrary but as said, the +2 rules exist for ages even if
>> "never" applied.
> 
> The "+2 rule" is new. Up to 4.2 stuff could be marked as deprecated, but it had no consequences.
> Therefore even deprecations back from 3.6 may only be removed in 4.5.
> 
> AFAIR this is it. Your current patches may go in with the slight adjustment of turning the 4.4 into
> a 4.5.

OK, I agree to that, too.

>> I have 10 other patches pending on my disk but I'll wait till some
>> agreement is found because creating them is time consuming but is OK
>> somehow, but creating the bug tracker entry and preparing the RFC for
>> the mailing list is even more time consuming. I would like an agreement
>> on what to do and then propose a single RFC with multiple patches if
>> it's OK.

> That would be great. There's no need to write a patch for each file.

True, and also agreed.

Cheers,
Ernesto