API deprecation

[Chris Johns]

On 5/03/2015 8:26 am, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> We have ticket #2265 requesting to deprecate notepads. It was also
> suggested we deprecate per-task variables.

Task variables should be removed. There are suitable SMP safe solutions 
available. Having an API that is only supported in uni-processor 
configurations is not helpful to users.

> Do we have an established
> procedure for how to deprecate an API? Does anyone have any
> objections?

Not that I know of. I suggest the calls be given the deprecate attribute 
for 4.11 and then removed in a subsequent version, ie 5.x or later.

Chris