Deprecations in 6.3

[davidweichiang]

Does anyone still use the old bar spacing algorithm? If not, can we deprecate it in 6.2 so we can remove it in 7.0?

Same question for legacy options like noteadditionalspacelinestext.

[rpspringuel]

Well, since I just pushed the 6.2 release, we'd be deprecating it in 6.3, but the point still stands. I would say put the question out to the user list. List all the legacy modes that we might get rid of and ask people to respond if they are still using them. If no one responds we'll mark them as deprecated.

In fact, you could probably start making the PRs that mark them as deprecated while still waiting for responses from the users. I would make a separate PR for each feature being proposed for deprecation. Then after a month or so, we can merge the ones which no one has indicated they still rely on and close those where people are still using them.

[lbssousa]

I still use old bar spacing in order to get \GreStar and \GreDagger properly aligned with bars in *(:) and +(,), for example.

[davidweichiang]

Oh, interesting…do you switch settings just for those symbols, then?

(I believe you could get the same effect by setting maxbaroffsetleft and right to 0.)