localrepo: reinstate localrepo.parents with a deprecation warning
The function was dropped in
3fe8cb40c9c5. This API drop brokes three of my
extensions including some critical to my workflow like tortoisehg. Lets mark
this API for death and give people time to fix their code.
bookmark: deprecate 'bmstore.write' method
This function does not collaborate with the transaction and must disappear. As
we have likely a lot of third party users, we make it deprecated to let them some
time to upgrade their code.
Thanks goes to Laurent Charignon for cleanup the last remains of the 'write'
method.
ui: add a 'deprecwarn' helper to issue deprecation warnings
As discussed on the list, we are adding an official way to keep old API around
for a short time in order to help third party developer to catch up. The
deprecated API will issue developer warning (issued by default during test runs)
to warn extensions authors that they need to upgrade their code without
instantaneously breaking tool chains and normal users.
The version is passed as an explicit argument so that developer think about it
and a potential future script can automatically check for it.
This is not build as a decorator because accessing the 'ui' instance will likely
be different each time. The message is also free form because deprecated API are
replaced in a variety of ways. I'm not super happy about the final rendering of
that message, but this is a developer oriented warning and I would like to move
forward.