Deprecation Policy and new GC

[James E Keenan]

Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> It's not exactly a secret that I don't like our deprecation policy.

No, it certainly isn't :-)

But before we scrap it immediately -- which is what you're proposing -- 
I'd like to hear a more dispassionate statement of what the current 
policy is and -- more importantly -- why we adopted it in the first place.

Thank you very much.

kid51