Provide a way to disable deprecation warnings.

[ahendrix]

I have a couple of classes where the exported plugin name cannot be equal to the class name.

https://github.com/PR2/pr2_ethercat_drivers/blob/hydro-devel/ethercat_hardware/src/wg014.cpp

The exported plugin is a driver for a specific model of device, and the exported name is the model number of the device. This means that the top-level node can find drivers for a particular device by querying the device model number and then searching for a plugin with the same name.

[dirk-thomas]

You should just upgrade to the new macro as suggested in the deprecation warning.

If you take a look at the implementation of the deprecated macro PLUGINLIB_DECLARE_CLASS you will see that the additional arguments which are dropped from the signature of the replacement macro are not even passed on the to lower level class_loader API.

[mirzashah]

Yes, the XML file containing your plugin info is where the exported name is set -- previously this was set both in the XML file as well as the macro. This is now optional in pluginlib as of groovy.