How to deprecate an @Option ?

[claudio4j]

Hi, if we want to deprecate a field annotated with @Option it seems we have to do it manually, like adding a Deprecation notice in the description and if the field is set, then we can manually print a warning that the field is deprecated, to be removed in the next version.

I looked at the @Option annotation, but there is no such field to mark it as deprecated, do you think this could be useful for an enhancement ?

[remkop]

Hello, indeed, there is no feature like this in the library, and I don't think there should be.

Applications are free to use the description and the hidden features that picocli provides to provide their preferred way to manage scenarios like this.

Enjoy using picocli!

[remkop]

With hidden, I mean @Option(hidden = true)
which may be useful for providing backward compatibility.

[claudio4j]

I will explore the hidden parameter, thanks.