Julia 1.5 and higher will work this way by default

[garrison]

Just noting here that this package will no longer be necessary as of julia 1.5 now that JuliaLang/julia#34331 is merged. It will still be useful to have on older versions of julia, though.

[jw3126]

Good point thanks! A PR with a depwarn on 1.5 would be welcome.

[garrison]

When I filed this issue, I thought it might actually be better just to update the README and have the code do nothing on versions 1.5 and higher. This way, somebody can have a package that relies on it while working on both julia 1.0 and 1.5, and there is not a constant (annoying) warning when running under 1.5.

Even better, I suppose (but I am not certain it is worth the effort) would be to integrate this feature into Compat.jl, since it is a package that exists exactly for cross-version compatibility, using the macro you provided as a starting point. There may be some tweaking required to get the semantics to match exactly. Then the current package could warn on all versions of julia that it is deprecated and that people are encouraged to use Compat instead if they need compatibility on julia versions prior to 1.5.

Again, I think this would make much more sense, but just adding a note to the README would be a good first step for now. Perhaps a second step would be to file an issue with Compat pointing here, in case anybody wants to use it as a starting point for integrating the functionality there.

[jw3126]

Sounds good, I added a note to the README

[garrison]

And I opened JuliaLang/Compat.jl#699

[omus]

Included in Compat.jl as of version 3.32.0

[garrison]

Great!

Then the current package could warn on all versions of julia that it is deprecated and that people are encouraged to use Compat instead if they need compatibility on julia versions prior to 1.5.

I suppose this is the only thing left to do then before closing this issue -- if someone is motivated enough.