From 67232f809a1cf7c6b88c57785e31692fe18f5844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RedMser <redmser.jj2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 17:27:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate PackedDataContainer

A custom resource type, or the methods suggested in the
deprecation message are easier to use and work more reliably.
---
 doc/classes/PackedDataContainer.xml    | 2 +-
 doc/classes/PackedDataContainerRef.xml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/classes/PackedDataContainer.xml b/doc/classes/PackedDataContainer.xml
index cb0d45c342..e31368ba92 100644
--- a/doc/classes/PackedDataContainer.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/PackedDataContainer.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<class name="PackedDataContainer" inherits="Resource" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../class.xsd">
+<class name="PackedDataContainer" inherits="Resource" deprecated="Use [method @GlobalScope.var_to_bytes] or [method FileAccess.store_var] instead. To enable data compression, use [method PackedByteArray.compress] or [method FileAccess.open_compressed]." xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../class.xsd">
 	<brief_description>
 		Efficiently packs and serializes [Array] or [Dictionary].
 	</brief_description>
diff --git a/doc/classes/PackedDataContainerRef.xml b/doc/classes/PackedDataContainerRef.xml
index bc79df0204..9bfe946087 100644
--- a/doc/classes/PackedDataContainerRef.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/PackedDataContainerRef.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<class name="PackedDataContainerRef" inherits="RefCounted" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../class.xsd">
+<class name="PackedDataContainerRef" inherits="RefCounted" deprecated="Use [method @GlobalScope.var_to_bytes] or [method FileAccess.store_var] instead. To enable data compression, use [method PackedByteArray.compress] or [method FileAccess.open_compressed]." xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../class.xsd">
 	<brief_description>
 		An internal class used by [PackedDataContainer] to pack nested arrays and dictionaries.
 	</brief_description>