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Re: Calling deprecated methods

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On 12/12/2017 3:05 PM, Kiwi User wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:24:50 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote:
>> [...]
>> The fact they deprecated a method isn't a problem.  The fact they're
>> still calling it is questionable.  javax.swing.JTree calls
>> java.awt.event.MouseEvent.getModifiers() which is marked deprecated in
>> Java 9.
>>
> Agreed. At a minimum, everything in the package should use the
> replacement class/method and preferably all code in the next release
> should use it too.
>
> This is the "eat your own dogfood" principle and I'm suspicious of those
> who don't stick to it.

     Bear in mind that Java 9 was originally scheduled for 2016,
then postponed to 2017 Spring, then 2017 Summer, and finally to 2017 Autumn,
more than a year later than planned.[*]  Resistance to the Project Jigsaw
changes can be blamed for only part of the delay; we may imagine that there was
 a lot of work to be done and that it took substantially longer than expected. 
 Deadline pressure being what it is, I don't find it surprising that the final
product was not quite as polished as might have been hoped; it's quite possible
 that a goodly number of lower-priority tasks were deferred to Another Time. 
Java's GUI technologies might well be considered among the lower-priority
pieces ...

     [*] A colleague once explained his method for making sense of
software project time estimates.  An estimate always consists of two parts: A
quantity and a time unit, like "two weeks" or "six months."  My colleague would
 start by doubling the quantity, then continue by bumping the time unit up by
one step.  Thus, the examples above would be understood as "four months" and
"twelve years."  ;)

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Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 16:31 +1200
  Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-12 10:24 +1200
    Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 20:05 +1200
      Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-12 15:41 +1200
        Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 21:04 +1200
          Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-12 13:33 +1200
            Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 22:41 +1200
              Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-12 17:57 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 04:51 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-13 08:21 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 05:40 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-13 15:19 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 07:57 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-13 17:30 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-12-15 22:31 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-16 09:08 +0000

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