Deprecation Cop warning: TextBuffer.on is deprecated. about status-bar

[bjmiller]

Is anyone looking at this?

[thomasjo]

Not to my knowledge. I might be wrong, but I don't think there are any plans for replacing this functionality. AFAIK no core package relies on this. /cc @atom/feedback

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For reference, the problem lies within these three functions.

[bjmiller]

Well, if it's dead/unused code, then it can simply be wiped. That would solve the problem stemming from the warning.

[izuzak]

@bjmiller Can you clarify which version of Atom you're using, which OS, and how exactly are you able to reproduce this deprecation? Are you able to reproduce it in safe mode as well? I'm having trouble trigger that deprecation, so I'm wondering what you're doing differently.

Also, that deprecation seems to be triggered in TextBuffer here. Notice that it's an else block after a long list of events which TextBuffer supports. That makes me think that something (not sure what, because I can't reproduce the deprecation) is using the status bar to subscribe to an event which is not listed.

[bjmiller]

I stopped getting it, which suggests to me that it's one if the packages left that hasn't updated - and therefore isn't running. If I had to guess, I'd say it was the sloc package. It makes heavy use of the status bar, and it already has 14 or so other deprecations.

[izuzak]

Thanks for those details, @bjmiller.

Just tried installing atom-sloc (after overriding the block in Atom), and it does cause a deprecation like that:

That deprecation is correctly attributed to the atom-sloc package in Deprecation Cop and the line in the deprecation points to the cause.

As far as I can tell, there's no problem with status-bar here, but please let me know if you still think there is, @bjmiller.