From b9ea9255e9adfdfca4b7dc24e938b9add0488db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:44:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] timer: Add a backwards-compatibility hack to awful

Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
---
 lib/awful/init.lua.in | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/awful/init.lua.in b/lib/awful/init.lua.in
index cb64420c4..f299c9958 100644
--- a/lib/awful/init.lua.in
+++ b/lib/awful/init.lua.in
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@
 --- AWesome Functions very UsefuL
 -- awful
 
+-- TODO: This is a hack for backwards-compatibility with 3.5, remove!
+local util = require("awful.util")
+local gtimer = require("gears.timer")
+function timer(...)
+    util.deprecate("gears.timer")
+    return gtimer(...)
+end
+
 return
 {
     client = require("awful.client");