[Bioperl-l] seqfeature.display_id

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> I'm also happy to carry around aliases for the previous names for a 
> while without even printing a warning, so the effect on existing 
> code will be minimal, while people writing new code against the 
> toolkit will hopefully be encouraged to follow the convention.


This is a necessity in my view - I think the right view is 


  1.2 new convetion in place, old methods work without warnings

  1.4 (say - March 2003) - old methods give a deprecated warning.

  
  1.6 probably the same

  1.8 --- possibly think about throwing.