Re: [Engine-devel] the future of template cloning
On 01/17/2012 06:35 PM, Livnat Peer wrote:
...
> We can't remove cloneTemplate until it is removed from the UI
or else we
> will break functionality. For now we are just going to ensure that it
> works as it always has until the UI is ready to remove it.
>
If by ensure you mean you are going to do adjustments for the
cloneTemplate code to work then it is not needed.
You can either send a patch to disable/remove this button from the UI
or synchronize your patch with a patch from the UI that removes this button.
I don't like the approach of leaving the code because many times we end
up with a code that is not used and not maintained.
I don't think a patch which would make existing functionality disabled
is the way to go.
I expect a lot of times a new functionality will be added, and the old
one should be flagged deprecated with a comment as to why (or open a BZ
to self to clean it up), or collaborate with someone more knowledgeable
on the specific component to make the change in sync, or do the patch
yourself.
to make less code deprecated, the old api could wrap the new
functionality (call removeDisk in a loop, etc.).
it should still be flagged as something to clean up once the api calling
it is removed.
obviously, collaborating (or doing it thyself) on a sync'd change is
easiest, but not always possible.