[Biojava-dev] Location deprecated methods

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi,

My vote is to remove the deprecated methods prior to the 1.3 release.

Matthew

Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> If nobody has any complaints I would to suggest that the deprecated
> Location methods be either removed or undeprecated. From memory they
> where all deprecated when we realized the system was buggy and switched
> all the operations to LocationTools.
> 
> Now that the Locations methods actually use LocationTools the deprecated
> label is not really needed.
> 
> Out of habit I use LocationTools as I was burned when Locations didn't
> work properly but it's probably more elegant to use the intersection,
> union etc operations from the Location. If this is the case the
> deprecations can be removed. If this is done the Location javadocs
> should be updated to strongly recommend that implementation of these
> methods is best left to LocationTools.
> 
> The alternative would be to remove these methods from the interface
> altogether and get everyone using LocationTools. I tend to prefer this
> but probably its just due to habit.
> 
> Finaly I see no reason why the symbols() method should be deprecated. It
> works and it's functionality of producing a SymbolList isn't really
> replaced by blockIterator(). I'd like to undeprecate it.
> 
> Any strong views either way.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> Mark Schreiber PhD
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