[Opensim-dev] Warning: IGridPlugin interface change

Melanie melanie at t-data.com
Thu Jul 3 10:15:39 UTC 2008


Well, to me it looks like inheriting from a differently named 
interface and renaming Close() to Dispose().

Melanie


Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Melanie wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Ryan McDougall wrote:
>>> If you have 3rd party out-of-tree plugins, please migrate your cleanup
>>> logic to Dispose() where possible.
>>>
>>> Should we have some sort of official deprecation process?
>> 
>> That is a minor change. Costs 5 mins per plugin. I'd say no, just 
>> let them break, instead of dragging around legacy stuff.
> 
> In this particular case I agree with Melanie.  I think an official 
> deprecation system is too heavyweight at this point - we're still better 
> off manually balancing the breakage cost vs cost of announcing/debating 
> deprecation.
> 
> However, I've never written an independent module/plugin, so other 
> people may have different views.
> 



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