Statocles::Help::Policy - Development and deprecation policies
version 0.098
This document describes development and deprecation policies.
Major versions are the only time when APIs can break. Major versions must be at least 6 months apart.
Features will be deprecated for an entire major version before they are removed.
Deprecation will start in the current major version, but only in testing (when the HARNESS_ACTIVE environment variable set by the Test::Harness module is true). All deprecations will be accompanied with the new feature when possible so users can switch immediately.
HARNESS_ACTIVE
When the next major version happens, the deprecation will warn always. When the major version after that happens, the deprecation will be fatal. Finally, after the next major version, the warning/exception will be removed (and so, things will probably fail in unexpected ways).
So, for something deprecated in v1.28:
Warning only when testing from v1.28 to v2.00
Warning in normal operation from v2.00 to v3.00
Fatal exception from v3.00 to v4.00
Exception removed in v4.00
All deprecations will be recorded in the upgrading guide along with instructions on how to work through it.
Statocles::Help::Upgrading - Guide to fixing use of deprecated features
Doug Bell <preaction@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Doug Bell.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Statocles, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Statocles
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Statocles
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.