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authorKenneth Lundin <[email protected]>2010-09-10 12:09:45 +0200
committerKenneth Lundin <[email protected]>2010-09-10 12:09:45 +0200
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Merge branch 'kenneth/gs-deprecate-warning/OTP-8824' into dev
* kenneth/gs-deprecate-warning/OTP-8824: Add warning in documentation about that GS will be deprecated and removed from distribution soon
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diff --git a/lib/gs/doc/src/gs.xml b/lib/gs/doc/src/gs.xml
index b1c7e505dc..f2182fc673 100644
--- a/lib/gs/doc/src/gs.xml
+++ b/lib/gs/doc/src/gs.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
- <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@
<module>gs</module>
<modulesummary>The Graphics System for Erlang.</modulesummary>
<description>
+ <warning>
+ <p>
+ GS is not recommended for use in new applications.
+ Instead we recommend WX for applications that need a
+ graphical user interface.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ GS is not maintained and we plan to deprecate and remove it from
+ the distribution as soon as possible, maybe already in the next
+ major release (R15).
+ </p>
+ </warning>
<p>The Graphics System, GS, is easy to learn and
designed to be portable to many different platforms.</p>
<p>In the description below, the type <c><![CDATA[gsobj()]]></c> denotes a