From 949ba2c5396cb41176325813dda9255f0cfce143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gilles Sadowski <erans@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:26:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] MATH-874 Deprecation.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/math/trunk@1415454 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../math3/optimization/BaseMultivariateOptimizer.java      | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math3/optimization/BaseMultivariateOptimizer.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math3/optimization/BaseMultivariateOptimizer.java
index 56cf2a15e..6785aabe1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math3/optimization/BaseMultivariateOptimizer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/math3/optimization/BaseMultivariateOptimizer.java
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ public interface BaseMultivariateOptimizer<FUNC extends MultivariateFunction>
      * if the maximal number of evaluations is exceeded.
      * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.NullArgumentException if
      * any argument is {@code null}.
+     * @deprecated As of 3.1. In 4.0, it will be replaced by the declaration
+     * corresponding to this
+     * {@link BaseAbstractMultivariateOptimizer#optimize(int,MultivariateFunction,GoalType,OptimizationData[])
+     * method}.
      */
+    @Deprecated
     PointValuePair optimize(int maxEval, FUNC f, GoalType goalType,
-                                double[] startPoint);
+                            double[] startPoint);
 }