Gordon Gremme

Can you be more specific? How exactly should that look like?

We tried to make the `-help` outputs no more than 80 wide (most one liners should conform to that). If we print them after the tool names the `gt -help`...

Having a more formalized and better approach for deprecations is definitely a good idea. Please send pull requests ;-)

I found this in sqlite3.h: ``` /* ** These no-op macros are used in front of interfaces to mark those ** interfaces as either deprecated or experimental. New applications **...

@Garonenur: Yes, it would be placed in front of every deprecated function. The macros have the advantage that they allow to use "compiler magic" to warn about using deprecated functions....

They have already been removed from the API headers by my latest pull request. Documentation parsing: good luck, it really became a monster over time.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html I think the deprecated attribute should do the trick.

Yes, it is gcc-specific. But there doesn't seem to be a portable solution for it. We could go with ``` void gt_func_to_deprecate(int) GT_DEPRECATED; ``` and define `GT_DEPRECATED` with the gcc...

Although this requirement (`Derives_from` references should exist) is not explicitly mentioned in the GFF3 it would make sense to add this check. I think the best solution would be to...

I created a pull request which reverts the commit. We can leave this issue open until we have a switch for the new behavior.