W dniu czwartek, 7 grudnia 2017 08:12:52 UTC+1 użytkownik Aymeric Augustin napisał: > > The duration of the deprecation period doesn't make a big difference > because few people update their code until they have no other choice. > Keeping deprecated code around longer means it's harder to track down the > release where the corresponding changes were introduced and figure out what > changes are needed. This effect already occurs in Django 2.0 where some > removals are related to 1.9 and others to 1.10. >
We've adopted the policy of only supporting two versions of Django in our open-source stack: the latest LTS and the most recent version. The rationale is that making the window longer does not really benefit anyone in the long run. We as authors of code have to maintain a ton of separate code paths guarded by conditional checks based on versions. Each class method needs to be annotated with when it's safe to remove it. Reasoning about the code is harder and adding new features is tricky when you discover that there is no way to support them cleanly on Django 1.8. None of our projects use 1.8 so by supporting it we'd be effectively doing extra work for no benefit. Library users don't benefit in the long term as giving them a longer window gives them more time at the exchange of making the eventual upgrade a nightmare. They either have to upgrade from 1.8 straight to 2.1 (I can't honestly recommend this to anyone as a responsible way to maintain software) or upgrade to 1.11 and effectively reduce their situation to the current one (having to upgrade every time a new LTS is released instead of every two LTS cycles). Just my two cents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/4670df99-e7f8-4b09-a24f-909b089f9798%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
