[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Default COLOR_DARK_RED may soon no longer be "red" (Issue #3016)

[elextr]

> its not important

Like I said, its _nice_ but ultimately changing the name of the enumerator is not _required_, only humans will get confused by it, the compiler doesn't care what they are called.

AFAIK there is no process for removing something from the API, I certainly have never seen it happen.  The G-P collection plugins are not the only plugins, there are many others, known and unknown, out there.  Arbitary changes to the API has the potential to break them.

I suggested a process, with both names being available _with the same value_ and the old ones causing a deprecation message (assuming those are not turned off, so documentation needed as well).  

The normal evolution of things like this in software projects is to only do removals when a major version change happens.  It has been talked about doing a major version change (2.0) at the next release, but thats not enough time for random plugins out in the ecosystem to be updated, the deprecation needs to be propagated for some time.


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