Re: deprecation prior to stable alternative?
| From: | Christian Weiske | Date: | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:56:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: deprecation prior to stable alternative? | ||
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Hello Herb,
> While installing HTML_QuickForm, the process told me it was
> deprecated in favor of HTML_QuickForm2.
> So I tried to install that, and found that the latest version, 0.2.0,
> is "stability alpha". Probably a dumb question, but why is an old
> version "deprecated" before there is a stable alternative?
The software doesn't get this right yet. You are right that an unstable
alternative should not be offered automatically.
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Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Weiske
-= Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 =-
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